A hundred years ago, does anyone think that this would be tolerated. No!
Those gang members would have been taken out behind the barns and had the what's-what's splained to them.
Our society has been so 'feminized and emasculated' that we can't do anything any more.
Recently I had a conversation with one of the sheriff's deputies. I told him that the only thing between me and an assault on me or my property was me. Because he would not be there. He agreed and said that I would have to be the one to protect my family and property.
I don't know where this idea that just more money can solve the 'problem'. More money hasn't made the schools any better, for example.
Who are the gang members? Why is ICE involved? Are the gangsters illegals?
Are you sure that's it? Or is it really that government sees the armed citizen as a much greater threat to its continued existence than the gang member (a useful tool) is, and punishes the two accordingly?
Were this not the case, armed citizens would have ended gang activity in the US decades ago.