[identity profile] le-trombone.livejournal.com 2013-04-13 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That's exactly what it was. I read that thing when I was in junior high school (a few years after it was published), and I remember being very confused by his reasoning.

I lived in an area that was probably more conservative than the national median at the time, but the Kent State shooting was something that even the conservatives were appalled by.