To those on the Right, the shooting represented a grimly satisfying, overdue “law and order” response to years of student unrest. They blamed the victims and believed the guardsmen had not reacted harshly enough. Four students dead in Ohio? More than a dozen young American servicemen who hadn’t dodged the draft died in Vietnam every day. A Gallup poll found that 58 percent of Americans blamed the students; only 11 percent blamed the National Guard.
