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As I reached a checkpoint near a police post formerly run by the Congolese authorities, gun-toting fighters from the M23 rebel group stopped my car.

On the right, it’s about God and native-born, Bible-thumping, gun-toting men and women who voted against their own self-interest because they thought Donald Trump was “one of us.”

But on the other side of the frontier, across the no-man’s land in a dry sloping wadi and along our bleak route, gun-toting RSF fighters in camouflage uniforms patrol this part of Sudan.

Unlike other rural places that overwhelmingly vote Republican, Inyo County “is more of an outlier,” with its mountain and desert towns appealing to “rednecks and hippies,” gun-toting hunters and backpacking environmentalists, said Kim Nalder, director of the Project for an Informed Electorate at Sacramento State.

The shooting sparked protests after it occurred, with critics citing McBride’s past gun-toting social media posts as proof of a propensity toward violence.