GETTYSBURG, Pa. ― A few hundred armed militia group members, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klaners, supporters of President Donald Trump, and other self-described patriots descended upon the Gettysburg battlefield Saturday to defend the site’s Confederate symbols from phantom activists with the violent far-left group Antifa.
Some carried semi-automatic rifles ― permitted in Pennsylvania ― as they peered out across the battlefield with binoculars, on the lookout for the black-clad, face-masked anti-fascists, anarchists and socialists they said they had heard were traveling to the national park to dishonor Confederate graves, monuments and flags.
Although many came expecting violence ― even after Antifa made it clear its adherents never planned to show up ― the only bloodshed came when a lone militia group member accidentally shot himself in the leg.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59592bd8e4b05c37bb7f0ca4?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Bahahahahaha
>>153904
>Defend a historical site
>of a decisive battle
>from a time when the country was divided
>This makes you as bad as the KKK and Nazi's
I really hoped the antifas showed up so there could be a second battle of Gettysburg and their corpses could be placed right next to the Confeds they wanted to defile. This historical revisionism makes me sick.
>>153912
More like
>Think some liberal commies are coming even though they had no plan nor desire to fuck up a national historic site
>Go play militia in the woods
>Shoot yourself in the foot
>>153913
So what happens when they get to the towns government and get permission to take down all the confederate historical pieces?
>>153914
Are you just trying to deflect the fact that these people made themselves out to be assholes and/or stupid? Because it seems you're trying to reroute the narrative here.
Regardless, I seriously doubt major historic sites which are federally protected, at fucking Gettysburg no less, are in any danger.
about 154 years too late
>>153927
But the republicans won
>>153916
This
>Some carried semi-automatic rifles ― permitted in Pennsylvania ― as...
Jesus fuck, huffpo, go fuck yourselves.
>>154059
For real.
Semi-automatic rifles have been around in this country for over 100 years.
>>153912
>>Defend a historical site
>>of a decisive battle
>>from a time when the country was divided
>>This makes you as bad as the KKK and Nazi's
Yeah, people just like making up boogeymen to hate, surely it's not the fact that many of them literally identify themselves as KKK or Nazi's
>>154084
>many of them
[Citation Needed]
I've been to several protests similar to this and have only managed to find one or two actual racists.
>>153904
holy fuck.
paranoid people set out to defend a site against an attack that was never going to happen but one leaves having shot themself.
that is so fucking funny.
>>154084
The country was divided over a matter of states' rights... The right to own people.
>>153916
You don't think they are in danger? Then you're ignorant to whats been going on. It doesn't take much for something like this to change.
>>154084
none of them were nazis or kkk members. I can bet money on that.
>>153904
Article is a terrible peice of shit up, down, left, and right
It mentions that the people their we're "Trump supporters" and a biker gang called "sons of the Confederates" - not a single source, line, or image of white supremacists and KKK members
>>154147
Guess no patriots had the balls to cover a story about a bunch of perfectly sane people being trolled to protect a civil war battle sight where the north won and where one of the defenders shot himself in the leg.
>>154147
duh its huff post.
>>154129
Because it's a National Park. You can't even demolish historic outhouses because someone important might of had diarrhea in there at some point.
>"while defending"
That's what got me out of Viet Nam!
God, it would be so interesting to be a fly on the wall while this battles are being planned. Think of all the hilarious shit that must go on behind the scenes. I get the impression both of these groups are just half-hearted and really fucking bored. It's like two groups of high school kids agreeing to meet in the parking lot of the local supermarket to duke it out. Both sides are just playing around. Antifa are a joke, and the KKK members I've met are just fat old freemasons on the West Coast, and who are far bigger pussies than Antifa, if you can imagine that.
>>154324
Are you retarded? The sign is calling antifa the KKK. Why people even bring up the klan anymore is beyond me its become 80% federal agents baiting each other and 20% old guys making an excuse to drink and talk about hating niggers in the garage
What the fuck even is this article?
Can we stop pretending Huff Po is a legitimate news source?
Dumb fucks.