Your post seems to indicate that a heavily armed paramilitary police force is OK so long as they are applied against the “correct” targets.
I have some problems with that. The definition of “correct” is highly subjective, and may change not at all to your liking.
If someone shoots someone is it the guns fault or the person using it?
I don’t know about subjective. But in light of a hoard of lawless, maniacal savages bent on looting and the destruction of private and public property, I thinks it’s reasonable that a community’s police force have the resources necessary to gain the upper hand. I just don’t see the problem under these circumstances. Under other circumstances, perhaps a debate on the subject is needed.