[rayiner]

That's quite a raging false equivalency. It's not clear exactly why the National Guard started shooting at Kent State, but there is no credible allegation that anyone ordered the shooting. In the aftermath, a federal commission was convened, and declared the shootings "unjustified" by the threat of violence to the guardsmen. (The protesters were violent--a few days before, they had set the campus ROTC building on fire.) Eight guardsmen, including all the ones believed to be responsible for the deaths, were indicted and tried. They were acquitted due to insufficient evidence of intent. The Supreme Court permitted civil suits against Ohio to go forward (the state ultimately settled). The incident led to the National Guard changing its crowd control policies. Today, Kent State is taught widely in schools and is recognized as a national tragedy.

Now, how many of these things apply to Tiananmen Square?

[robotresearcher]

Tiananmen was much bigger and differs in many ways. The scales are not comparable.

Yet Kent State is a simple counter example to the grandparent’s claim that political protestors are not massacred in the US.

I’m not sure how much more clear I can be.