[CrazyIvan]

I might catch heat for this, but we need another Kent State-type show of force to get rid of these violent, deadly radicals. They are a menace to society, and to law and order.

Not from me. Why a campus should be a law free zone is
beyond me. And there's lots of evidence that the Guardsmen
at Kent were returning fire.

[null and void]

The thing about Kent State?

The people who were shot weren’t in the front line with the useful idiots.

They were in the back with the CPUSA organizers.

[fwdude]

...there's lots of evidence that the Guardsmen at Kent were returning fire.

There was overwhelming evidence, at least that they were acting to protect their lives from a murderous group of anarchist thugs who:
- burned down the campus ROTC building nights before.
- trespassed on private property by taking over and trashing professors' private offices
- made numerous bomb threats against campus facilities.
- rioted in town, terrorizing residents, destroying property and spreading massive mayhem.

The shooting at Kent State was flat-out justified. No criminal charges were brought against the guardsmen (in contrast to today's zeitgeist, in which the guardsmen would be tried for murder and lynched.) It's only a shame that they waited so long to take the needed action.