In capitalist America, in order to go to work every day you have to let the military search through your belongings. Once you pass the military checkpoint you must still be wary because there are police officers disguised as civilians hiding in the crowd.
There’s an even more recent example with how states deployed NG during the 2020 BLM protests
Yeah, I linked an article about that one ng genius firing on a car because a cop with a beanbag gun said "light em up"
Literally any excuse to pull the trigger is good enough for them