“Sheer stupidity both on the part of the students and the people in charge caused those deaths. Not the Guards fault. They [the Guard] shouldn’t have been there in the first place, if they weren’t supposed to kill anyone.”
Well, we are getting away from Stang’s article. But to reply:
National Guardsmen are sent out to all sorts of emergency situations. They are trained to maintain discipline and are only supposed to kill as a last resort in self defense.
They were sent to the town of Kent and Kent State University to keep order. It was absolutely not necessary to kill on the day of May 4, 1970. The students had already dispersed and those who were shot were typically hundreds of feet away. The Guard should have at least been convicted of manslaughter.
At least a civil suit was successful, when $675,000 was awarded to the surviving victims and the victims families in January 1979.
Now it’s end of discussion.
You are wrong. I am right. End of story.LOL