Boone is not just “a town in the Blue Ridge Mountains”===it is loaded with a population of wealthy liberal elitist LEFTISTS from SOMEWHERE else— who are NOT “mountain” people in the great tradition and descendants of the frontier people who won the American Revolution particularly at the Battle of Kings Mountain.
The Overmountain Men with Sevier of TN and Cleveland of N. Georgia, and many others, crossed through the area of the town of Boone on their way through what was to become Watauga County (in 1849 and Boone 23 years later in 1872)... to wipe out the last of the British presence (and the Tories helping them then) killing Brit. Col Ferguson.
The tourists who took over Boone long ago, are a bunch of Asheville Leftist joebamabidenites so we have to learn about the entire encounter to explain the raid. Could be dope, NC is a shall issue state, with different sheriffs taking different stances on RKBA. Notable were the NC and VA Sheriffs present in support of 2nd Amend. in DC— who will refuse to seize legally owned firearms. Look them up. The Sheriff of Watauga County’s position is clear, and this may be a political antagonization by the Leftists... Ambushing the Sheriff’s officers. We’ll have to see.
Meanwhile there is Virginia Foxx (friends tell me she is great in NC): https://foxx.house.gov/news/
Boond is the closest decent skiing to Dlorida. We’d all pile in a SUV and drive ip for a long weekend. Good times.
RIP, officers. That sux.