Re the Boise, ID, shooter who killed two people at a mall Monday:
The man who opened fire at a mall in Boise, Idaho, on Monday, killing two people and injuring five others before being fatally wounded by police, was a far-right gun extremist who had expressed an animus towards Latinos and other minorities—and who not only carried a gun into the Idaho governor’s office, but also turned up armed at an April antifascist protest in Boise and menaced demonstrators, Daily Kos has learned.
Jacob Bergquist, 27, was a convicted felon who had moved to Idaho a few years ago and had apparently developed an obsession with establishing his right to carry a firearm under Idaho law, a review of his social media posts indicates. He died Monday at a Boise hospital after being shot during the culmination of a shooting rampage inside Boise Towne Square, the state’s largest shopping mall.
Prior to his rampage, Bergquist was known to local police as someone who stalked an April Antifa demonstrations and always tried to take full advantage of Idaho's lax gun laws:
The result of these laws is an environment in which far-right extremists are empowered by authorities to use their guns to intimidate their political opponents, as Bergquist did in April. More insidiously, they have created an environment in which police forces—which increasingly have been demonstrating their sympathy with such extremists—actually green-light their threatening behavior, which is invariably directed at vulnerable minorities and the broader community.
Police? In league with violent right-wing extremists? We're shocked, shocked!
Sadly, two innocent people were sacrificed on the altar of the ammosexuals. A normal day in America.
(Photo: Bergquist/ screenshot via Daily Kos)
