Revisiting Ruby Ridge

Thirty four years ago this summer, ATF and FBI agents besieged and attacked a Christian survivalist family living in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. The proximate causes for this tragedy stemmed from christian apocalypticism (end of the world teaching) and anti-government conspiracy theories. The fallout from that summer of 1992 reverberates down to our own time.  

The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of the Weaver family home in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges after he was given the wrong court date. Wikipedia Dates: Aug 21, 1992 – Aug 31, 1992