"Family Friendly" Machine Gun Festival Welcomes Neo-Nazi Extremists

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Media Matters for America / By David Holthouse

"Family Friendly" Machine Gun Festival Welcomes Neo-Nazi Extremists
What's up with the little kids in Nazi shirts at the Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot?

April 13, 2011 |



The Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky advertises its World Famous, twice-a-year Machine Gun Shoot as "Family Friendly" entertainment. The slogan: "Nothing brings families together like blowing stuff apart...safely."

I won't deny the red-blooded-American joy of firing automatic weapons at exploding targets.

Still I have to ask: What's up with the little kids in Nazi shirts?

I was on site at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot fewer than 20 minutes last Saturday before I passed a shaved-head lad with with a Totenkopf death head on his chest. (The Totenkopf was the symbol of the Nazi SS division that ran death camps like Auschwitz during the Holocaust.) ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150603/%22family_friendly%22_machine_gun_festival_welcomes_neo-nazi_extremists/

[CelticThunder]

1. Sounds about right!

[DainBramaged]

2. Good bad or indifferent right?

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[AlabamaLibrul]

4. Nazi Punks Fuck Off

It can have dual meanings in this case.

[Initech]

5. There's only about 100,000,000,000 things wrong with this.

[damntexdem]

6. What a perfect match!