Arbitrary killing in the name of national Interest

[Ratzone_El]

No, it is not justified. It is out of place to kill in the name of National interest. War is not fair, and brutality should not exist.

[Timothy Rucinski]

Of course, it's not justified. But the Kent State Massacre was a seminal moment during the war in Vietnam. By then, even the most hard-core pro-war types were starting to get sick of the whole thing, particularly as the number of dead soldiers flashed across TVs from coast to coast each evening. And then, all of a sudden, people's children were being mowed down by gunfire in a safe haven of a university campus by national guardsmen ill-prepared for a peaceful confrontation. If anything, hearts and minds were directed away from support for the war than toward it.

[Uyo ojo Grace]

It is never acceptable to kill non-violent, unarmed civilians in the name of national security.

[Mayang Bature]

Citizens should not be killed arbitrarily for whatever cause. The issue currently is that the government is doing little to stop such behavior. A police officer with a gun can shoot an unarmed protester because "they appeared to be violent," and nothing will happen to them. That is why we are still dealing with this issue today.

[Okonobe Chioma Chukwuma]

Killing for reasons of national security is completely unacceptable.There is no justification for the security personnel's conduct because the children slain on campus were not armed.

[Maria Ferreira Silva]

Killing for the sake of killing and just because you can is not justified.

[Chandelier Eden]

No no no. It's not justified. If you have to kill someone, let it be that the person has at least been to the court, and be heard and actually proven guilty-- not by the words of someone. Anything apart from that is just plain injustice.

[Ogunkoya Mayowa]

Killing in the name of national interest is not justified, and this is a big problem in the community, government is not ready to take this as its fault. They kill innocent people and still stand that it's right. This should be stopped in the community.

[Uriel David]

Killing for national interest is lawful, but not in the case of this story because protecting the future of a nation (children) is a national interest. Police shootings at peaceful demonstrations, student or not, is not and cannot be justified.

[Ohna Martin]

Killing is never justified. Governments should stop with that, how can people believe that the governments want to do what is good for them if they start killing their own people? Nothing is ever a good enough excuse to justify that.

[Moo Reny]

Killing innocent children no matter the motive can never, I repeat never be justified.
How will innocent bright lives be lost just because of a "national interest"?

[Jay David Randall]

No, no way killing for the sake of national interest is justified. It is tyranny and inhumane in my opinion.

[James Fx]

It’s terrible to see that those who are suppose to protect us are the one harming us. Killing in the name of national interest is highest form of wickedness when there are other ways to resolve it.

[Park Cherri]

No, it isn’t justified and shouldn’t be justified. It’s the height of inhumanity. There are other ways to disperse the riot than killings.

[Onyeso Njoku]

I don't think it is justified because security agencies are to protect the lives of the citizens of the nation. So killing in the name of national interest is not justified in any way.