[Kid Shelleen]

I was watching a documentary about the incident. Some of the old hippies being interviewed still can't understand why National Guard was brought in despite the vandalism and the assaults on fireman and policemen.

[JimRed]

...And in other scores, National Guard 4, Kent State 0...

[null and void]

And, as if by magic, campus riots stopped that very day.

I think this had a lot to do with the shooting victims being at the back of the mob, where the organizers were...

[Snowybear]

I caused a furor on a friend’s FB page where I stated that I wished more had been shot. Not sorry I said it either. You’re a weekend warrior and you have hundreds of students rushing you, some throwing rocks and bottles.

Before the riots, I mean, protests there were threats made against the college and the town.

[Kid Shelleen]

Yet the declassified FBI files show the FBI already had developed credible evidence suggesting that there was indeed a sniper and that one or more shots may have been fired at the guardsmen first.

New light shed on Kent State killings

[day10]

CSNY - Ohio

[Arthur McGowan]

I’ve never seen any mention of parents’ pulling their kids out of college around that time. Notice how you never see an interview of students who are fleeing no-free-speech colleges?

[Responsibility2nd]

Kent State.

The deaths of those four students made America sick. That incident forever changed our approach to riots and violent uprisings in this country. We are more tolerant now. We accept and allow incidents like the Rodney King riots, the Ferguson riots, Baltimore riots, and now currently the Antifa protests.

And look what our tolerance has resulted in. Law and order in our cities is in chaos. And as the police try to react and respond to the cultures of today - more mistakes happen. Like what happened in Balch Springs, Texas last weekend where a cop fired at fleeing car, killing a 15 year old boy.

So we do not fire at violent punks and thugs in the street anymore. We allow the space to destroy. And we reap what we sow.

 

 

[Hattie]

Many years went by after that without any more of the burning, looting and law-breaking mobs. Just my observation.

[Dan in Wichita]

I’m sure the Left was secretly very pleased with the deaths at Kent State, for they used it to help build their anti-American movement, which to this day continues to smother and destroy American tradition, institutions, and power.

[montag813]

They had it coming at Kent, as they did in California, where Reagan deployed troops, with one fatality resulting. It worked and stopped the violence cold.

[slipper]

I have never understood the outrage against stopping the rioters at Kent. They were burning buildings, absolute chaos. If they didn’t listen to orders to stop, what are you supposed to do after a warning shot??

They should have gotten control over the mobs in the recent riots before the fires and jumping on cop cars started.

Law and order is hopefully on the way back under Trump, but it will be a vicious fight with the liberals to get there.

[Grampa Dave]

We lived in a DC suburb during the Kent State riots and MLK riots. We had two infant sons. I was concerned about my family’s safety and mine as I spent several days a month in DC, working.

In both riots, I had to drive my vehicle through tear gas to to get out of harm’s way and go home. We didn’t have cell phones, news 24/7 and local nixle alerts to warn us possible danger from rioters.

I took a promotion to get my family out of what was becoming a hostile area to live in and work in.

The comments below are from Wikipedia about both riots:

Just five days after the Kent State shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and the killing of unarmed student protesters. Ray Price, Nixon’s chief speechwriter from 1969–1974, recalled the Washington demonstrations saying, “The city was an armed camp. The mobs were smashing windows, slashing tires, dragging parked cars into intersections, even throwing bedsprings off overpasses into the traffic down below. This was the quote, student protest. That’s not student protest, that’s civil war.”[10]

Not only was Nixon taken to Camp David for two days for his own protection, but Charles Colson (Counsel to President Nixon from 1969 to 1973) stated that the military was called up to protect the administration from the angry students; he recalled that “The 82nd Airborne was in the basement of the executive office building, so I went down just to talk to some of the guys and walk among them, and they’re lying on the floor leaning on their packs and their helmets and their cartridge belts and their rifles cocked and you’re thinking, ‘This can’t be the United States of America. This is not the greatest free democracy in the world. This is a nation at war with itself.’”[10]

The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

The link below shows some of the damage from the MLK riots in DC.

http://www.atchuup.com/1968-photos-of-dc-riots/

[wardaddy]

freepers good lord the stuff y’all get wet over.....