The guard obviously has to bang the hoe :skorm:
What is your definition of innocent for one?
Two before this continues:
If x person attacks the president and the guards protect the president, and then die. Would you consider those guards guilty of what crime?
My definition? My definition of
innocent Is when someone has no quarrel or bone with a particular situation and also when someone is defenseless and has no beef with someone else or doesn't want to be involved with a certain scenario. Pretty much civilians of a village that is about to be attacked by an unknown invader. The civilians who are trying to protect their kids and children and innocent but the leaf ranking officers who are trying to fend off the attackers are not innocent because they are ninjas for a reason- to fend off the village from unnecessary evil that may plummet. Just because the village officers don't have beef with an enemy does not mean he is innocent once he initiates an attack against the enemy.
In Sasuke's case, it's quite simple. Sasuke was trying to hide. Zetsu betrayed him and gave out his whereabouts. The Samurai figured out where Sasuke was. Sasuke decided to go out into the open because he knew that there was no use hiding anymore. The Samurai warned Sasuke not to proceed. Sasuke gave them a warning to step back and not attack. The Samurai attacked anyway, which led to Sasuke's killing spree of killing the Samurai. Sasuke is at fault, but the samurai are not innocent in this predicament.
The point: The Samurai were involved the moment they decided to initiate an attack on Sasuke when they could have been smarter and just notified the kage ninja, but instead they rushed to their death like a bunch of fools. Hell, Sasuke even gave them a warning so that would have been a good opportunity for them to run and notify the kage who could actually cease the threat, but instead they decided to act like they could handle it themselves when in fact they were a bunch of fodders who were cocky and didn't even know the enemies strength.
Why do people keep saying that the samurai are innocent when:
A) They were the ones to initiate the first attack
B) They got involved the moment they attacked Sasuke when he wasn't even looking to fight them
C) They are their to serve and protect against outside danger
And to answer your question, no, the guards are not guilty. The guards decided to protect the president instead of trying to kill person x. That is different if the guards were just trying to kill person x like what the samurai were doing to Sasuke.