"The #KentStateMassacre, which occurred on May 4, 1970, involved the Ohio #NationalGuard shooting unarmed #CollegeStudents during a #protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University, resulting in four deaths and nine injuries. This tragic event sparked widespread outrage and led to the largest student strike in U.S. history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
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"Twenty-eight National Guard soldiers fired about 67 rounds over 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. "

Kent State led to major retribution, including the bombing of the National Guard Association's DC headquarters by the Weather Underground. Nobody knows how many other bombings and how many fires in the next year or so were people's private reprisals for Kent State and Jackson State (2 dead 11 wounded 11 days later).

Had Jackson State been followed by a string of further killings of protesters, I believe all-out civil war would have quickly followed.

Already a great deal of force was being used against the draft and the Vietnam War. Hundreds of draft boards were burned, bombed, or stormed and records destroyed. Each destroyed draft board gave immunity to legally enforceable induction orders to everyone registered there, due to the "order of call defense" and lost records.

Over-enthusiastic army officers in Vietnam were sometimes executed by their own troops, a process known as fragging. Some officers in turn had snipers firing on known antiwar organizers inside the their military units in Vietnam.

The Pentagon said in 1971 "a preerequisite to the reestablishment of the US Army as a credible fighting force is extrication from Vietnam. Two years later US ground troops were out and the draft was dead.