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They don't have to be very much better equipped - from the Wikipedia article on the Kent State "Shootings":

Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, whose statements were carefully programmed, referred to the deaths as a reminder that 'when dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy.'"

challenge anyone to convince me the Biden administration wouldn't say the same thing

After the student protests, Nixon asked H. R. Haldeman to consider the Huston Plan, which would have used illegal procedures to gather information on the leaders of the anti-war movement. Only the resistance of J. Edgar Hoover stopped the plan.

luckily for Genocide Joe, his head of FBI will have no qualms

A Gallup Poll taken the day after the shootings reportedly showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard, and 31 percent expressed no opinion.

wonder what the poll numbers are on the current protests and strongly doubt they're more favorable today

The term "massacre" was applied to the shootings by some individuals and media sources, as it had been used for the Boston Massacre of 1770, in which five were killed and several more wounded.

this is why I put "shootings" in quotes - that's how the article titles itself, but here in Ohio, I've only ever heard this referred to as a massacre