-> I don't know that he's particularly wrong.  I have found some of the
-> questions I've been asked in the guard very troubling.  I missed the
-> questionare about shooting on unarmed american citizens, but the very
-> existance of it disturbs me.
->
-> It's also disturbed me that so often in training sessions and such
-> it is suggested and commented that our oath may necessitate the
-> firing on of citizens.  That we may have to defend the constitution
-> from Joe Q public.  That disturbs me.
Sad to say, Nolan, but this is nothing new.  Kent State springs
immediately to mind.  As does the "race riots" in Watts, Detroit, etc.
(65?).  Then there was the suppression of the "Bonus Army" during the
depression. Read the history of the labor movement during the last
century, and you will find that state militias were often called out to
fire on strikers.
Regards
John
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