Right, I realized that after I posted that perhaps a better option to leaving would have been to join the counter-protesters.

And the white supremacists extremists were not the "outliers" at this protest.  They organized it.  They did it because - as David Duke said - they felt empowered by trump and wanted to take America back for whites.

They did not stutter.  There was no question that they were extremists and the whole thing was organized by extremists.

It's kind of pathetic that you feel the need to carry a club around in your car.  I don't.   Where do you live that's so dangerous anyway?