[johnbryanpeters]

NPR's Radio Diaries broadcast a piece this evening about the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexican soldiers shooting and killing a lot student protesters and others in October of 1968.

It turns out that the shooting was started at the instigation of the government by other members of the military in order to cause troops on the ground to open fire on the protesters. The shooters, in buildings near the protest, wore a white glove on their left hand to identify themselves to each other. The first person to be killed was a Mexican general on the ground.

So here's the government instigating a massacre by shooting its own soldiers.

Would an armed citizenry have improved the situation?

 

[JohnE]

Utilizing the Weaver ready stance? Anything is possible...

(But seriously, to stop a case like this, where the government is bent on massacreing its own, no. After, in an uprising, to bring those responsible to justice, I think so, yes.)

 

[4xBoy]

Well this government let attacks happen so they could impose their power and take away certain freedoms.

 

[Straya]

Would an armed citizenry have improved the situation?

In the country in general or at that specific instance?

Armed citizens in the actual massacre event itself is a recipe for friendly fire disaster I reckon.

 

[rockwool]

NPR's Radio Diaries broadcast a piece this evening about the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexican soldiers shooting and killing a lot student protesters and others in October of 1968.

It turns out that the shooting was started at the instigation of the government by other members of the military in order to cause troops on the ground to open fire on the protesters. The shooters, in buildings near the protest, wore a white glove on their left hand to identify themselves to each other. The first person to be killed was a Mexican general on the ground.

So here's the government instigating a massacre by shooting its own soldiers.

Would an armed citizenry have improved the situation?

Repressive governmental (federal and state) are common in todays Mexico in provinces like Oaxaca, Chiapas, and a third one that I've forgotten the name of, where the indigenous population are organizing them selves in various ways.

Armed citizenry in the way of "the right to bear arms" in the same way as up north? No, people have their old hunting rifles as well as a lot of other guns around if they wanted to retaliate in form of small guerrilla ambushes.