Number of right wing nuts with guns on the rise: Michele Bachmann mentioned

She's been playing with fire this year, and this is the fire she's been playing with:

Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report

By Alex Ogle (AFP) – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Incensed by the election of the first black US president, right-wing militia groups in the United States are rising again after a decade of decline, said new research on extremist groups released Wednesday.

Ideologically driven by racism and a virulent anti-government, anti-immigrant agenda, the homegrown groups that thrived in the 1990s and spurred numerous deadly terrorist attacks are expanding, said the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

"This is the most significant growth we've seen in 10 to 12 years," said a law enforcement official quoted by the SPLC in its special report "The Second Wave: Return of the Militias."

"All it's lacking is a spark," said the official, adding it is "only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."

Bachmann's mentioned down in the body of the article; so is Texas governor Rick Perry and his secession talk. That's the difference: the "kook" stuff used be on the extreme--but now it's worked its way into the top levels of the Republican Party and conservative movement.