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Today is the anniversary of the Kent State shootings, or more appropriately the "May 4th Massacre". In the wake of recent events and our consideration of gun control laws I think this day deserves a great deal of reflection. Four Americans were murdered, and nine more wounded, by our own national guard simply for participating in an anti-war demonstration. If we want to consider limiting access to guns on american soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens. The last thing I want to see is an unarmed populace needing to deal with a well-armed police and military force. Lets focus on securing the rights of the citizen, not giving them up
@freemo That was justified. The protesters were more violent than portrayed. It only takes one gunshot to put a squad in kill mode. Police would have killed more protesters. They are better at shooting unarmed people in the back.
@freemo Those troops were armed with M14 rifles or M1 Garrand rifles. 7.62 NATO and the 30-06 (7.62x63mm round effective at 960m). A single shot would kill or severely wound a person. The 7.62 NATO round was originally the .308 Winchester big game round. It's good for bears.
@freemo That was the same war that had bastards spitting on returning soldiers. When your country hates you, you had to kill armed children shooting at your platoon and you saw war crimes daily. It was fucked up. The veterans of Vietnam I've talked to would cry or avoid talking about it. One was very close to me, he talked about an ambush on his base. His CO ran to deliver coordinates to him and he got shot in the back of the head and collapsed on my friend. Over a dozen Americans died in the attack, they stopped counting the vietnamese attackers after around 40 something. Those were only the ones found dead on the base.
@freemo he graduated from my University with my degree in the summer of love, got married and was sent to Vietnam.