Some people may have deserved to get arrested but when the shooting started the nearest person shot was about 60 feet away, the nearest student killed was 100 feet away and the rest were 100 yards or more away. At least 2 people killed had nothing at all to do with the demonstrations, they were just walking to or from class. The CO of the unit was brave to the point of insanity, he walked right in front of the soldiers as they were firing screaming for them to stop. The incidents that led up to the shootings may have been the catalyst but it's hard to explain how the actual shooting was justified.
They deserved more than being arrested.
Ok, so you think it is ok for people to riot. You had a National Guard unit that was trying to restore order, you had people throwing cement chunks at the guard who were much closer than sixy feet away originally, the guard turned around, at orders from the officer in charge, and was moving off when one of the members(and this was when they were 60+ feet away)turned and fired, the rest fired also because they didn't know what was happening. The officer in charge did good in stopping this, but the ultimate blame lies with the protesters, not the guard. Anyone who thinks they would have stood their ground and not fired at these communist idiots doesn't know what it is like to be in a situation like this. Don't want to get shot? Don't break the law and don't throw cement chunks at armed men. As far as the distances are concerned they were taken after the fact and are open to doubt because the left wing were in charge at that time as they are now on most colleges and Universities.
Rule #1 (a) If people you know are picking a fight with soldiers with rifles at the school you go to, take the day off.
Rule #1 (b) If you are within range of any weapon during a conflict, you are in danger and should leave immediately and expediently. Bullets have neither brains, eyes nor conscience, and rocks rarely consider the ramifications of their actions.
Watched a show about Kent State in which some of the Guardsmen claimed someone shot at them. I believe that a reporter at the event had a pistol. Putting two and two together I bet the reporter knowing what would happen fired his pistol in the direction of the Guardsmen and bang he had one hell of a story.
What got me was after the Guard shot the students the protesters didn’t run but kept on taunting the Guard. Only after an older faculty member pleaded with the protesters did they back off.
Tell me what would you do after seeing people shot? Would you stay and taunt the shooters or would you get the hell out of there?
At that point I knew that the protesters was a bunch of radicals. Who in the hell wants to get killed unless you have been brainwashed by communist organizers.