Ruby Ridge is not the same thing. It is believed evidence was destroyed when that occurred. It is absolutely not the same thing. Ruby Ridge was an isolated encampment. This is high caliper weapons being turned on people from random places. There is no prediction to this. This is not Ruby Ridge. That is always something the Right Wing Gun Nuts draw on as an example of government overreach. That ain't it!

This photo taken Aug. 7, 2012 shows Sara Weaver, left, and her husband, Marc, at their ranch outside Kalispell, Mont. Sara Weaver has finally forgiven the federal agents who 20 years ago shot her mother and younger brother to death during the siege at Idaho's Ruby Ridge. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — When Sara Weaver (click here) saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper's bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family's cabin on a mountaintop called Ruby Ridge.

As the 16-year-old closed in, her mother, Vicki, opened the cabin door and stood behind it, holding Sara Weaver's 10-month-old sister in her arms. Just then, a sniper's bullet struck her mother in the head, killing her.

For the next nine days, the surviving Weavers holed up in the cabin while hundreds of federal agents laid siege in a standoff that helped spark an anti-government patriot movement that grew to include the Oklahoma City bombing....

Weaver was a victim of a rigid system and the mistakes it made along the way while others wrongly accused Weaver of illegal content in his life. The circumstances to that and to what is occurring in the USA today are vastly different. Any action by the government against violent anarchy leading to the death of innocent Americans has nothing to do with the dynamics of Ruby Ridge. 

Protecting the Second Amendment is about living within the limits, not existing in the extremes. Americans should not live in an armed camp unable to carry out their lives.