According to our correspondent Jim Scarlett, the feeling was peaceful — and electric.

“The energy was electric, positive and very upbeat,” he reported.

Although some news outlets tried to forecast the event as a white nationalist rally, or having the potential to be another “Unite the Right” as occurred in Charlottesville (that fateful day in August 2017), it appears that this time Antifa activists stayed away, and the presence of not just a few African-American gun rights activists dispelled the divisive prediction.

See Scarlett’s photos here, and video below.