guardsmen were also taught to use their rifles as lethal weapons, not as nonlethal control instruments, and that “in any instance where human life is endangered by the forcible, violent actions of a rioter, or when rioters to whom the Riot Act has been read cannot be dispersed by any other reasonable means, then shooting is justified.” One guardsman said in hindsight: “We didn’t have training in how to deal with student protests. We had training in how to kill people.”
