-What Made the 1970 Killings of Four Students Who Were

-What made the 1970 killings of four students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University so ironic?

A) Americans feared that a war undertaken to protect American democracy was instead of destroying it.
B) The four victims had just been drafted to go serve in Vietnam and Cambodia.
C) Nixon had recently called the student protestors such as those at Kent State "bums blowing up campuses" while the public perceived them as martyrs.
D) The Kent State shootings unmasked the "town and gown" divide that resulted in counterprotests to support the war.