Should the President of the United States have the power to deploy military troops in order to stop…
If we aren't going to stop and punish rioters then riots will happen. If the military does have to come in and stop riots there is a good chance that somebody could die, but they knew what they were doing was wrong and they have to deal with the consequences of bad decisions.
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It's interesting that you bring up the BLM protests. While it's true that some protests did escalate into riots, it's important to remember that the vast majority of them were peaceful. The U.S. Crisis Monitor found that over 93% of BLM protests were peaceful. Deploying the military to handle civil unrest can potentially escalate tensions and lead to unnecessary violence. For instance, the Kent State shootings in 1970, where the National Guard was deployed to handle student protests, resulted in the death of four students and nine injured. Do you think there might be other ways to handle riots, if they occur, without resorting to military intervention?
