Disturbing Sight

 Okay...now, I'm officially frightened.

Driving home yesterday afternoon, I was behind a big pick-up truck with this emblem in the rear window:

I had no idea what it was, so I Googled "Roman numeral 3 with stars" and discovered it is the emblem of a group called the Three Percenters:

The Three Percenters, also styled 3 Percenters, 3%ers and III%ers, are an American and Canadian far-right militia movement and paramilitary group.^[3] The group advocates gun ownership rights and resistance to the U.S. federal government's involvement in local affairs.

The group's name derives from the disputed claim that only three percent of American colonists took up arms against the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolution.

The Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes the Three Percenters as an "anti-government" group. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) characterizes the Three Percenters as "anti-government extremists who are part of the militia movement."

The group is American-based but has a presence in Canada as well. Some Canadian experts consider the group the "most dangerous extremist group" in Canada.

The group's website states it is "not a militia" and "not anti-government". Three Percenters believe that ordinary citizens must take a stand against perceived abuses by the U.S. federal government, which they characterize as overstepping its Constitutional limits.^[1] Its stated goals include protecting the right to keep and bear arms, and to "push back against tyranny".^[4] The group opposes federal involvement in what they consider local affairs, and states in its bylaws that county sheriffs are "the supreme law of the land".

Like other American militia movements, Three Percenters believe in the ability of citizen volunteers with ordinary weapons to successfully resist the United States military. They support this belief by claiming that only around 3% of American colonists fought the British during the American Revolution, a claim which underestimates the number of people who resisted British rule, and which does not take into account the concentration of British forces in coastal cities, the similarity of weapons used by American and British forces, and French support for the colonists. [emphasis added]