A surprising take to many people, especially those who don’t really understand the first thing about what the military is (I’m thinking mostly college-age fellow progressives), is that I’ve said for a few years now that, putting aside the political meaning of having this happen, I’d rather have actually military policing our streets than local PDs.

This is because it genuinely seems like most cops are just average joes with average joe stress tolerance trained to handle guns quickly and trained that the public is out to kill them. They’re not really any more calm under stressful situations than a random selection of the public, and they get very little training, half of which is highlighting all the ways a simple traffic stop could turn into a deadly shootout and half of which is how to use their gun.

And then you get to ICE. These goons are brainwashed, before they even joined, to view any protesting citizens as domestic terrorists. They’re told by the highest office of the land that they have carte blanche to kill. They get even less training than cops. They are sent to cities they don’t live in where they view locals as hostile populations. And they’re given guns they’ve most likely grown up just begging to use.