"I suppose if the words are hardly recognizable, the validty of the interpretation could be in question, but that's not Wikipedia's job. I would contend though that the entire circumstance of the Kent State Massacre ""has never been used by the military"". Killing random innocent students is not standard procedure. The same level of incompetence that was expressed in these killings may have also heard in the orders to shoot. And I don't think calling them incomepetent is debateable. If I were threatened for my life by approaching people for whatever reason, I would shoot them, not people casually walking by hundreds of feet away. This was gross incompetence.    

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