You do know that we are talking about “government”, and not simply “federal government”, right?
And the courts have longed ruled that the federal government has a constitutional authority to try interstate crimes, including murder, in certain cases. I have not seen a strong libertarian push to eliminate all federal crimes from the criminal statutes, but I suppose there could be a few people who would argue that point. I’m just surprised to find one.
The Constitution grants FedGov jurisdiction in only THREE crimes. Now remember the Tenth Amendment. If authority is not granted, IT DOES NOT EXIST. The ONLY exception, as I pointed out, is under the Congress’ authority to regulate the military and naval forces, period. Which, of course, applies SOLELY to members of those forces.
Crime is LOCAL. The Several States (and their political subdivisions) are the ONLY LEGITIMATE authority to deal with crime. End of story. It is when well-meaning idiots think that there is something special about “interstate” crime that we have another building block for Leviathan. Now if you want to try to make a case for having a federal agency that could pick up and return a fleeing criminal to STATE jurisdiction, maybe we can talk, but Federal CRIMES? Forget about it. That is just ONE of the myriad of ways we got to the point we are at now. Piracy, Treason, Counterfeiting... those are ALL that are ALLOWED to be federal crimes. That was the clear intent of the Founders and that is what we need a return to today. This federal juggernaut is what it is because of allegedly well meaning people not too dissimilar to you. And you need to realize that it is now and has always BEEN wrong to involve the Feds where they are NOT ALLOWED TO GO. Never forget the camel’s nose and the tent. Right now about 95 percent of the camel is in the tent and there’s no room for who is SUPPOSED to be there.