> deploying something that injures innocent Americans

Except that's not what's happening here. In fact, quite the opposite, it's more like robotic PPE.

> that's not what's happening here

Nobody claimed anyone has been injured by these devices yet. (They haven’t been deployed in public.)

The reasonable concern is that when they are deployed, they are likely to injure someone because the people deploying them have been eagerly hurting—and defending those who hurt—innocent Americans.