 According to the Vermont Department of Health, they had only seven gun homicides a year every year from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, the state had 12, but that fell back to seven in 2016. In a state of 620,000 people, that's a rate of 1.2 firearm homicides per 100,000 people in a typical year. The FBI statistics report only two gun homicides in Vermont in 2012 for a firearm homicide rate of 0.3 per 100,000.