Are you actually surprised that, for hours now, what seems to be a group of heavily armed snipers has been killing firefighters who were responding to a brush fire on an Idaho mountain? Can it be possible you don’t know that the state of Idaho teems with violent lunatics who have organized themselves into mountain-dwelling militias?

When it’s finally over (could be a long time; they probably have molotov cocktails too) our current president will announce that there were fine people on both sides.

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So national and international news are lighting up with this story about an America where organized, heavily armed people are as we speak ambushing and killing a group of firefighters trying to put out what could become a large blaze.

This is only a remarkable event if you don’t know about the Idaho militias. This particular story might not be about a militia, but unfolding events aren’t out of line with what we know has established itself up in this northern region of the state: Multiple paranoid highly armed militarized essentially terrorist outposts.

This is the state with the worst gun laws in the country, which makes it irresistible to our native terror class. The state won’t/can’t do anything about degenerates who hate everybody stockpiling the latest deadliest weapons.

A few years ago some of the Idaho militias got themselves riled up about something and there was

a tense stretch of nights when armed vigilantes and Second Amendment supporters converged on [a] city’s quaint downtown.

It’s legal to openly carry guns in Idaho. But even here, in one of the nation’s most conservative states, some were alarmed at what they saw as intimidation.

“These were people in full camo fatigues, with AR-15s, multiple clips,” said Shelby Rognstad, the mayor of Sandpoint. “These people looked like they were pulled off the streets of Afghanistan and ready for war.“

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Two dead, at least eleven injured, and a dead shooter found. It could all have been the work of one madman, but no one’s saying yet.