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Message: <blockquote data-quote="realbrown1" data-source="post: 1352693" data-attributes="member: 46221">Kent St. was national guard troops who would be called up to deal with riots or large protests.  You do know how rowdy the anti-war college protests used to get?  Unusual situation there.The WW1 vets, just 15 years after the war, had 15,000 to 24,000 people marching on the capital demanding payments on war bonds.  I would hardly call them unarmed civilians.In 238 years as a country, and those are the best examples you got.Soldiers just won't obey orders to shoot civilians or take their weapons with out extremely good reasons.  Otherwise, they could later face a court marshall for following illegal orders.</blockquote>