Question. If the neo-Nazis, KKK members and White Nationalists came to Charlottesville to peacefully exercise their First Amendment rights, why did so many show up and march in military fatigues and armed to the teeth? They were spoiling for a fight. Did they need such obvious and unnecessary forms of intimidation to get their message across? Seems like they just wanted to flaunt their hateful and militaristic rhetoric since their viewpoints are not shared by the vast majority of Americans; they exist only on the fringe margins of contemporary society. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers died in WW II fighting such evil. Americans of good will and character need to stand up and speak out to defeat this cancer within our society. And please spare me the argument that counter-protesters were violent and thus complicit. That's like saying Patriots at Lexington and Concord should not have used violence to wage war against the British colonizers.