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2020-06-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Armed ‘Patriots' patrol Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

[Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press] Men with semi-automatic weapons, handguns say they are here to protect city amid reports of militants heading this way

Reports and rumors that groups bent on rioting and violence in Coeur d’Alene brought out men and women with guns on Monday determined to stop them if they arrive.

Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.

"I heard there are some people on the way who shouldn’t be here," he said early Monday evening.

Those people, he said, were Antifa and Proud Boys, militant far-left and far-right groups.

Carson said he was in Spokane Sunday night helping protect business there. He said he supports the right to protest and is also upset about the death of George Floyd.

"By all means. I’m on their side. I disagree with what happened," he said. "What I don’t agree with is when you turn to violence, and you start rioting and destroying businesses and hurting people who have nothing to do with anything.

"That’s what I’m here to hopefully prevent," he said, adding, "I’m not going to be alone. There’s a lot more on the way."

He was right. Soon, more armed men, self-described as a loosely formed group of patriots, arrived. They took up posts at corners on both sides of Sherman Avenue.

Later, they were joined by hundreds of citizens packing rifles, semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and bows and arrows.

The sidewalks were packed with people walking up and down Sherman Avenue, firearms proudly displayed for all to see.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-03 09:02|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top
File under: Antifa

#1 Before we wax poetic about these guys know that the major White Supremcist city in the NorthWest is in Athol (always laugh at that) Idaho just north of Coeur D'Alene and it is possible these guys are from that group. I hope not, I'm sure Idaho has a lot of Patriots, just saying.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-03 09:09|| 2020-06-03 09:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-03 09:24|| 2020-06-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Dan was a walking arms room. Lots of stuff on his back and hip, nothing in his head.

So called "Open Carry" is a recipe for disaster. There, I said it.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-03 09:26|| 2020-06-03 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.

All he's missing is a bullet-proof tuxedo, dog named Daisy, and some rad techno.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-06-03 09:52|| 2020-06-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Not so sure 'bout the White Supremecist angle here - seems they were looking to keep both fringe elements from coming in. Antifa has been launcing forays into areas where they are not known to congregate. A handful of Antifa rolled into Yucaipa, CA and got trounced by the locals

Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-06-03 10:01|| 2020-06-03 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 we like guns here in Idaho, just sayin'

Posted by 746 2020-06-03 11:38|| 2020-06-03 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 All comes down to who's doing the labelling. I've been to some very backwoods places and never yet had anyone say to me "I'm Bob and I'm a white supremacist," and then reach for the secret handshake.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 11:53|| 2020-06-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course, nowadays, if you are not kneeling, you are a white supremacist.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 11:56|| 2020-06-03 11:56|| Front Page Top

#9 When I lived in Spokane (mid 90s), just across the border from Coeur D'Alene the folks up in Athol that I'm talking made it very clear they were White Supremacists with marches and showing up at other peoples marches. Most were somewhat proud of their stance, but that doesn't mean they haven't learned to tone it down.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-03 12:19|| 2020-06-03 12:19|| Front Page Top

#10 .38 Special - I love that band!

Posted by Raj 2020-06-03 12:37|| 2020-06-03 12:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Carrying that much weaponry might make it a problem to actually use it effectively.

Not much capacity for spare ammo, either.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-06-03 12:46|| 2020-06-03 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 .38 Special - I love that band!

Hold On Loosely

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 12:53|| 2020-06-03 12:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Carrying that much weaponry might make it a problem

I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 12:58|| 2020-06-03 12:58|| Front Page Top

#14 It amazes me that at a town where lots of people carrying weapons did not kill, maim, or wound anyone, are still called names and finger wagged by a bunch on this site.
(Shakes head in bafflement)

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-06-03 13:09|| 2020-06-03 13:09|| Front Page Top

#15 I respect everyone's right to go armed. I don't care what they believe. If they are disciplined in their actions I know I have nothing to worry about.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 13:17|| 2020-06-03 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Got a 50 yo s&w highway patrolman. Always use 357 mag rounds for ammo. Even shot a black bear with it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-06-03 13:25|| 2020-06-03 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 For among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself.

- Nicola Machiavelli

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 13:28|| 2020-06-03 13:28|| Front Page Top

#18 357 mag

I'm a .44 Mag guy, but I have one of those, and a Coonan 1911 .357 Mag too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 13:30|| 2020-06-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

#19 OK, Spirit Lake is home. My family is from there and you will find that the area is now a tourist trap. With that said, Butler and his church are no longer in existence, since his death. You will still find white separatists here. For the most part its gone. What you will find is a community that will fight and defend their right to be there, even though we don't agree with them. We also defend and support the Hoodoo valley hobos and the Sandpoint hippies. The panhandle is very constitutionally oriented and we do not put up with the idiots arriving in CDA and trying to implement their bigoted beliefs. We have a horrible history of the CA people arriving and wanting to change things into CA. We also have nothing but bad history with the feds, FBI in particular. Ruby ridge was a horrible event that the FBI murdered a woman with a baby in her arms and a young boy. There is no love for the fed there. If some protester will come to CDA and do anything you will find their bodies in the locs at post falls....

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-06-03 13:31|| 2020-06-03 13:31|| Front Page Top

#20 The absolute truth is, any anarchist or antifa miscreant shows up in your town, they need to disappear. Quietly. Forever. Without a trace. Instead of a splashy hyperventilating new report of their death in tomorrows media, they should at best get a stupid 5 page article in the Atlantic or New Yorker five years from now about how they just disappeared and nobody knows a thing about it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-03 13:45|| 2020-06-03 13:45|| Front Page Top

#21
#1 Before we wax poetic about these guys know that the major White Supremcist city in the NorthWest is in Athol (always laugh at that) Idaho just north of Coeur D'Alene and it is possible these guys are from that group. I hope not, I'm sure Idaho has a lot of Patriots, just saying.

The respectable conservatives have done nothing to stop Antifa etc.

People will eventually turn to less respectable quarters for protection for themselves and their families.

And the respectable conservatives will have no one to blame but themselves if that happens.

If Weimar had had an effective, credible conservative opposition, Hitler would not have happened.

Posted by charger 2020-06-03 13:59|| 2020-06-03 13:59|| Front Page Top

#22 Mrs. Warthog and I live in Eagle, ID. A nice suburb of Boise. Dan might be a walking gun shop but maybe the sight will be enough to persuade the
Antifa a$$holes to not show up. Somehow doubt that however.

We love our guns in ID and our Constitution. I'll take these guys any day over the "Do Nothing" RINOS. We're a very polite sort here in Idaho..until you directly threaten our family or town.

We had a peaceful memorial - not even a protest -in Boise last night. Idiots mess with Idaho.

Besoeker - we already have a disaster. Could an innocent get hurt? Absolutely..Right now we're all getting hurt

Posted by Warthog 2020-06-03 14:42|| 2020-06-03 14:42|| Front Page Top

#23 /\ Spent a little time at Gowan Field around 100 years or so ago. Beautiful country, friendly people. Back then anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-03 15:42|| 2020-06-03 15:42|| Front Page Top

#24 ^^ Greetings to the Warthogs from a fellow Eagle-ite. We are polite here, but very well armed. Might I guess you for former USAF from the moniker?

Posted by Nero 2020-06-03 16:09|| 2020-06-03 16:09|| Front Page Top

#25 If Weimar had had an effective, credible conservative opposition, Hitler would not have happened.

They did: the German National People's Party, or DNVP. It was totally outmaneuvered in every way by the National Socialists, then absorbed. (It's always easy to forget that Hitler was a skilled politician in a very modern sense.)

Posted by Secret Master 2020-06-03 22:59|| 2020-06-03 22:59|| Front Page Top

#26 If the brutal conditions of the Treaty of Versailles had never been imposed, Hitler probably would have still been in Vienna doing water colors.

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