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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9702906" data-attributes="member: 18">Not really though, given [ISPOILER]he's explicitly so old he's pre-Christian, and specifically from pre-Christian Ireland[/ISPOILER].I don't think that actually adds up. A lynching or murder or five sure.First off, they don't turn up until [ISPOILER]well after dawn, so assuming this is summer that's going to be what, 6-7am? The vast majority of the people will already have left - all you'd be likely to find might be people cleaning up, possibly some drunks sleeping it off if the owners were the types to let them, but you might not even find that. Hell, you might not even find the owners. You'd almost certainly find someone and that's what the Klan want - token murders to scare people and show them who is boss, because they want domination/white supremacy not genocide (at this point in history).[/ISPOILER]Second off, the[ISPOILER] KKK didn't bring many people or weapons. I count 12 (the scene is on YouTube) and about 50% of them have weapons at all - pistols/shotguns. That's plenty for forcing people to flee or committing a few murders. It's grossly underarmed and undermanned for a massacre.[/ISPOILER]To me it seems more like the vibe is that[ISPOILER]the KKK came to do a few murders rather than a massacre, and was utterly annihilated because they weren't expecting an ambush from a trained soldier armed with fully-automatic military weapons (a BAR and a Tommy gun with a drum mag) which were essentially a "tech level" up from what they were using. That in fact they were just there to kill the twins and/or some of their employees and possibly burn down the building (though re-watching the scene they don't seem to have petrol cans, so clearly weren't looking to do so in a hurry). If they wanted to do a massacre it would have been trivial for them to come at night from both sides and just set the barn on fire, shooting anyone who came out - it's a classic murderous racist move that I believe the Klan did later use. But they chose to wait until morning, presumably due to cowardice - i.e. fear any of them might be hurt or inconvenienced in any way - and being focused on domination/white supremacy.[/ISPOILER]Your general point re: [ISPOILER]the vampires hiding behind other people's killings is obviously correct though and no doubt that if the Klan found the bodies of all the dead they would have prevented any investigation on the grounds that someone was doing god's work.[/ISPOILER]I will say whoever came to that scene after [ISPOILER]the Klan would be wildly confused. You'd have a bunch of dead bodies of black people and a few others inside, some with animal-type injuries and some with wooden sticks in their chests. You'd have a bunch of dead black and white people outside to the right of the barn who were very burned (to ash maybe?). You'd have this bunch of white guys and one black guy who were all shot/exploded. What a puzzle![/ISPOILER]</blockquote>

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