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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.
Counterpoint; maybe police would never have been able to justify being so heavily armed in the first place, if the #USA wasn't a country where getting a #gun is EASIER than getting a #Degree, a #Home, or a #Job.
The "defence against tyranny" #rhetoric LOST ANY and ALL water it may have held once the #NRA got in bed with the most tyrannical #President elected to date.
Sorry, but the #NationalGuard are going to need those guns, and NOT because of student protesters.
@FatherEnoch doesnt make sensr on a few accounts.
For starters the issue isnt with police being heavily armed it is with them not being held accountable then they use it. Them like thr citizens can and shouod be as heavily armed as they wish as long as they are responsible and accountable to their actions.
Second, the disparity in armament seems to occur in coubtries with strict gun laws to a greater extent not lesser. I the usa for example police and citizens are fairly equally armed, in the UK however certain police are allowed to be armed while the citizenry in general more or less cant be, showing a greater, not lesser, disparity.
@freemo Interesting bit of trivia: Jerry Casale of DEVO was standing just feet from one of the women who was shot and killed at the Kent State Massacre. Joan Jett, before her music career, was also at the protest.
>Devo’s Jerry Casale Looks Back at Kent State 50 Years Later: ‘Time Stood Still’
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/devo-jerry-casale-interview-kent-state-massacre-protest-992651/