Two white supremacist neo-Nazis were arrested in Tennessee Monday for plotting to assassinate Barack Obama. Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman were charged with making threats against a presidential candidate, illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and conspiracy to rob a gun dealer. Officials said the men planned to go on a killing spree at a predominantly black school, killing eighty-eight people and beheading fourteen African Americans. At the end of the killing spree, the men intended to try to kill Obama. Troy Klyce, Sheriff of Crockett County in Tennessee, said the men were first arrested on October 22.

Troy Klyce: “It took some good work, some great work between all these agencies for them to come together. But we needed a little luck. And it’s scary how it could have ended up.”

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there have been more than sixty major domestic terrorist plots that have emerged from the radical right since 1995.