Shit like this is why I'm always sus about the hippies. From what I've read and seen they were no where near as radical and militant as say the panthers were. I guess there's something to be said about them wanting to throw off the yoke of traditionalism but it seems like it was mostly because they wanted to party, versus the panthers who wanted to liberate oppressed people. Not to mention that the hippies grew up to become the reactionary boomers we got today.

Technically they were pointing guns at them to make sure they didn't levitate and walk away with the Pentagon