In a new era of campus upheaval, the 1970 Kent State shootings show the danger of deploying troops to crush legal protests || by Brian VanDeMark :: The Conversation

"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed his intention, if elected to a second term, to use the U.S. armed forces to suppress domestic protests. The New York Times reports that Trump’s allies are marshaling legal arguments to justify using National Guard or active-duty military troops for crowd control." More at The Conversation ➜