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... This was also one of America's first mass school shootings and it was done by our own military with the blessings of the government. People's memories are so short.
Kent State shootings - Wikipedia ...
The entirety of the Labor Wars of the late 1800s and early 1900s had state militias, national guard, and police violently putting down protests. The public backlash when the CO Nat. Guard burned a miners' tent encampment causing the deaths of 11 children and 2 women finally got Congress to act on things like ending child labor and establishment of the 8 hr workday.
I like to point to this source about the massacre to liberal friends and ask them to read it while thinking about the nature of oligarchy, how Rockefeller was paying the salaries of the Nat. Guard troops, and to contemplate why it is that all modern gun-control laws have exceptions for police/NG at time when we are entering a second Gilded Age: The Ludlow Massacre Still Matters | The New Yorker
And there's a Woodie Guthrie song memorializing the event, with a decidedly pro-gun message: