Kent State revisited
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No kidding. A sniper who could only hit trees and statues. I'd have fired 67 rounds in response too! Another right wing white wash.
Kent State was a idiotic episode in American History that should never have happened. Untrained (National Guard) troops firing upon unarmed students, the soldiers should never had been there in the first place. By the way, it was Governor Rhodes who ordered the guard onto the campus, not Nixon.
In this case Cliffy, I fully agree........
I remember seeing a newspaper article about the "arsenal" found in a student's lodgings........forbidden, of course, but it consisted of a single shot .22, and a single shot 20 ga shotgun.
Uh huh. Up the revolution.....of course the word ARSENAL was prominent in the headline, the catalogue of guns was in the last paragraph.
Kent State was an outrage.
Good thing facts about tragedies are never skewed by Govt.
Just imagine the consequences if this type of skewing was/is on an international scale.
Just imagine the consequences if this type of skewing was/is on an international scale.
What are you looking for, I clicked on"The Onion" and got this: Advocacy Group: Mothers Have Right To Expose Milk-Engorged Breasts In Public :lol:
I DO NOT THINK THAT ANY STUDENT SHOULD BE SHOT TO DEATH FOR PROTESTING!
Kent State massacre was a total abomination.
When I was commuting weekly from my Ontario home to my office in Ohio, often I took the I76 route, going by Kent State University.
I always slowed down, bowed my head and thought of the innocent victims of the mindless and irresponsible shooting.
Hope it never happens again.
Kent State massacre was a total abomination.
When I was commuting weekly from my Ontario home to my office in Ohio, often I took the I76 route, going by Kent State University.
I always slowed down, bowed my head and thought of the innocent victims of the mindless and irresponsible shooting.
Hope it never happens again.
You for got to mention that some of the National Guard members were Kent state students as well.
I see. So some mystery sniper fired badly aimed shots into a tree and an statue and the National Guard returned fire into unarmed student protesters. Sounds reasonable provided the National Guard didn't put the bullets into the tree and statue themselves.
What really happened was a bunch of these students armed with AK-47s shot at the soldiers first. The students were using assault rifles and ammo made from an ultra-biodegradable plastic. and the only evidence left was a bullet hole on a tree and a statue that showed up forty years later. Obviously part of a communist plot.;-);-):lol:
They could be ice bullets, juan. Then they would melt in minutes, leaving no trace behind.
Since the Tea Baggers believe people should arm themselves against government intrusion, I wonder what they have to say about all this?
The students were ordered, time and again, to clear the campus. They refused to do so, and the national Guard moved to get them out of that area. What happened was tragic, but it was those students (and non-students who were a large part of the crowd) fault.
Keep in mind that at least two of the people shot were not students at all, and had absolutely no connection with Kent State. They were outside agitators, who came in to help create a riot. The fact that they got a lot more than then had anticipated is their fault, not the guards.
Stop crying for those idiots.
Keep in mind that at least two of the people shot were not students at all, and had absolutely no connection with Kent State. They were outside agitators, who came in to help create a riot. The fact that they got a lot more than then had anticipated is their fault, not the guards.
Stop crying for those idiots.
Yes - it appears that in the US the gunning down or its own citizens by the very personnel that are supposed to protect them is pretty much par for the course.