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Was it murder?
Kent State shootings
Replies: 4Last Post Jan. 14, 2007 5:21pm by PetitOiseau
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Yes, it was murder. 8 61%
No, it wasn't murder. 0 0%
I am undecided. 5 38%
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
http://dept.kent.edu/sociology/lewis/LEWIHEN.htm
There are two articles, if you'd like to find more, just google "Kent State shootings."


When interviewed, the National Guardsmen said they feared for their life and were provoked to take violent action. From what I've read and seen, it doesn't seem that way. The student who died nearest to the Guardsmen was 265 feet away, and was not armed.

Now, if you'd like to try to say that they're wrong and that the students were closer or whatever, no, they weren't. There are memorial sites in the places of their deaths, and I was there recently. Trust me, unless someone was aiming a gun at me, I simply couldn't feel threatened by someone at that distance, especially someone not involved.

Do you think it was murder? Why or why not? What do you think?

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I think it was. From that far away, and unarmed, whereas the Guardsmen were armed, that has to be just ridiculous to call it fearing for their lives.

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I have to agree.  I've always failed to see how someone could feel threatened by someone else, unarmed and 265 ft. away.  

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What is the American legal definition of murder?


I somewhat doubt its the same as English common Law:- "unlawful killing, of a human being, under the queens peace, with malice aforethought"

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They didn't mean to shoot the students...but since they had guns and the students were killed, yes I think it was murder - just unintentional.

What I was telling you in Alg. the other day, Spasty, was that there is this May 4th room in a building dedicated to the victims. There are four glass windows, the first with a very bright sun and a small bullet hole. The second is a dimmer sun with two bullet holes...the third is dimmer with 3 and the fourth is red and dark with 4. I thought that was such a cool idea.

Also, there is a sculpture that is brown right by the parking lot in which one of the students died. On it, there is a bullet hole in which the bullet went through. After I saw that, I got chills up my spine.

There's also a bridge/walkway dedicated to the victims. After four years of walking around the campus, I sure have a knowledge of the history, eh?


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