Quote Originally Posted by Loyal Rogue View Post
Silver, this was on a busy college campus at lunchtime with most students having lunchbreak in the campus square as usual or walking between classes.
None of the students or faculty knew that the guard would be firing live ammunition at everyone in sight.
Falculty passed out fliers saying the rally was canceled before hand to prevent anything from happening after 3 days of escalating violence in regards to rallys related to this one

The few who were having a rally were being peaceful until they were provoked and then attacked by the guardsmen with teargas.
The "rocks" that were being thrown were handfuls of gravel from the gravel parking lot and they were being thrown in the direction of the guardsmen who were several hundred feet away and out of distance.
if by few you mean over 2000 people then yeah i def can see how someone wouldnt notice 2000 people holding a rally 2 days after a building on campus was burned down, and firemen/police officers were assaulted with rocks.
as i said previously 3 days of escalating violence led to attempts at canceling the rally. obviously something bad was going to happen, it was just a matter of when.

There are two sides to every story.
You should do a little research into what witness accounts say before you decide who was in the right and who was in the wrong that day.

Yes, the students who crossed the line should have been arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, etc.
Their is no way that the guardsmen were justified in shooting live ammunition into a crowded public place with more innocent bystanders present than protestors.
Again 3 days of escalating violence, this didnt happen yesterday, the soldiers didnt have the techology we have now to non violently disperse a crowd, One of the first things a gun owner learns is if you are going to pull your weapon you better be prepared to use it. a military group sent to disperse a crowd which had a high likely turning into a riot would load their guns with blanks? really? do you have any idea how absurd that sounds?

no we have pepper spray guns, Rubber balls instead of bullets, ****ing heat rays, they didn't have that 40 years ago.

As for reading eye witness reports, those will be biased, i read the wiki page which is freely editable from both sides, the most non partial thing i can find. its not like i went to Nationalguardhistory.com or Kentstatemassacrememorial.com