What Were They Thinking?

All right, I know, the 60s are over, but something I was just thinking about, especially after watching the movie "Across the Universe", was all the violent acts made. The people of that day who were protesting the war wanted peace, in fact that was the motto "Peace and Love" as well as "Make love, not war", but then came numerous violent acts. They didn’t want the boys over there fighting, but thought talking would possibly make it better and they protested this, but as the war went on longer, along with the protests, the people got violent. Bombs were set off. Now, I understand that this was meant to make a point, but they were doing exactly what they were trying to stop, they weren’t being the peaceful people they wanted. Now, I don’t know about you, make this makes little sense to me. I mean, if you’re trying to make something be stopped, you would think you’d do the opposite of it. I understand walking around with signs and talking to people, but killing or hurting or risking the lives of people to make your point, especially a point about peace? Come on, it’s not rocket science, you do the opposite, you don’t try to hurt people or risk their lives. Now, again, I know this is a time 40 years gone, but it’s just something that was really irking me, something that didn’t make sense.