This is not a "war".
Not on any grand, political scale.
No more than the US Calvary slaughtering Native Americans was a "war".
This is a systematic, premeditated slaughter of people who pose absolutely no imminent threat to the American people in order to loot them.
Calling this a "war" is an insult to the Americans who have really fought in wars.
Now, on a local level there will be conflict, maybe, which will be intense and deadly. It might look like "war" on that level, but a drive-by shooting in Oakland can look like war, too.
Arf