No "trampling of civil liberties" has been shown.. now they even let residents have rifles and shotguns to legally carry!!!! Try what with the Democrat ran D.C.Plus there's the whole "trampling of civil liberties" and "using federal law enforcement for low-level municipal policing tasks" and burning political capital…might play well to the base, but it's building towards a Kent State moment and there's zero ambiguity as to who will be accountable in the public's eyes when a Federal LEO or service member makes a mistake and shoots an American citizen for some "reason".
I've said it before and I'll say it again. All actions have consequences. Sometimes those are long-delayed, but ultimately, they ALWAYS manifest themselves. Sometimes on those who took the actions, sometimes on those fellow travelers, but they ALWAYS manifest themselves.
Personally, I'm a bit troubled by the precedent that a President or even the Federal government as a whole can mobilize specific law-enforcement and military forces to combat vaguely-described "crime"…what's to stop a future President from doing exactly that to "control crime" and simply defining the "crime" as a failure to turn in weapons?
And rape, robbery, murder, etc.. is not "vaguely-described 'crime'"... it is people being killed in the streets, people being mugged, people being robbed..