Bullsh*t! But on your Big Girl pants.
How would you put down the insurrection? By arresting them and then have the activist prosecutors and judges drop all charges in the name of Freedom of Speech?
In 1906, they summarily executed looters in San Francisco amid the rubble. This is WAR!
Curfew violators, looters, have been subject to being shot since the riots of the 60s, as well. National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets were deployed in DC. If anyone thinks they didn't have ammo, too, they are misinformed.
A threat of force must not be made unless it can and will be carried out in extremis. Otherwise, the threat is meaningless.
I think the thing to watch for is civilians or groups of civilians who might step up and take down rioters.
The reason this hasn't happened? First, the civilian militia or individuals would be caught, in the present political (MSM) atmosphere, inn a crossfire, between 'protestors' and the police, who would suddenly be reinstated and re-funded with a raise to protect the communist street gangs who were
looting and burning peacefully protesting, and that is how the media would play it until you had a hard time believing your own lying eyes.
Second, stepping across the line to use somewhat indiscriminate lethal force on the Communists ground troops does not address the problems of those funding, organizing on an international/national/regional level, along with their comrades in elected offices and appointed government positions who have been running interference for, covering for, releasing without charges, and otherwise aiding and abetting this Communist insurgency.
After all these years, those Che T-shirts mean something to them. Short of hauling those ringleaders and financiers in front of a judge or a pock marked wall, rounding up their foot soldiers is meaningless. The foot soldiers are expendable, dime a dozen, useful idiots and paid hooligans who likely do not even have a firm grasp of the issues, with the exception of the indoctrination they get as part of whatever training they receive. Their motivation is likely less ideological than an opportunity to vent incited anger, to make monetary gains as either paid protesters, looters, or both, or an unbridled release of anger at just about everything. Considerable criminal opportunities would present themselves during such unrest, so the chance to commit their particular crime abounds with little likelyhood of prosecution or retribution.
So, the elimination of an entire looting crowd in a containment by either capture or more extreme measures would have only the effect of letting the movement know that people were willing to take that step.
Of course, the cheesecake images of soccer moms would be trotted out in the press excoriation of those who did the dastardly deed of stopping those bent on looting and destruction and even murder, and the media sh*tstorm over resistance to the Communists would be intense. This why any meaningful effort to resist the mobs would have to be coordinated and widespread, even regional if not national, and have to happen in a short time span (24-48 hours) to prevent a media blitz intended to bring sympathy for those removed from the mobs.
There is precedent (night of the long knives), and in that instance the removal was effective, although that was an internal purge, and not a counter-revolutionary operation.
If that went badly, or was ineffective, the media would insist on (police) rounding up those who organized it for criminal prosecution, or the Communists would simply send out death squads if they knew who was behind it. So the average person is generally hoping the whole rebellion flames out before it gets to their neighborhood, anyway, and is likely not thinking in terms of a protracted conflict with people who may be idiots, but are violent idiots and determined to continue.
How many times have we heard the comment from 'protesters' "This is
war"?
To some of them, at least, it is.
To the rest of us, it is something happening somewhere else, performed by jerks and crooks and the ignorant spew of institutions of 'higher education', and not seen as the organized, coordinated, well funded, and likely well armed (behind the scenes, in general) Communist insurrection it is.
As with any threat to one's safety and well being, I see this as a serious threat to the Republic and to Americans, and failure to do so will only guarantee that it continues, and gains momentum.
WHile I am not advocating for violent action (especially because of the way the media would exploit any such incident for political reasons) it would be folly to not take the time to seriously consider how you would defend your homes, neighborhoods, towns, against invasion by such groups, with an eye to terrain, escape routes, access and limiting that access, and otherwise considering how you (and others you may know and trust) could keep your family safe, by whatever means that might prove necessary.
Having that knowledge is by no means a requirement to use it, but failure to consider options when they may be done as a mental exercise, rather than wait until they become a matter of survival would be remiss.