You know that this limitation on the role of the guardsmen was requested by Bowser, right? She didn’t like the optics of having armed guardsmen interacting with the public, as had been done over the summer, so they were relegated to logistics, like traffic control.
She is not the reason the guard was delayed being called out for emergency response when the riot actually started. She is part of the reason that they were not there before the riot started. Probably, at the time, it was beyond belief that they would actually try and storm the capitol to kidnap and Pelosi and Pence. She was pretty naive, I guess, but Tuesday of last week was an innocent time. In her defense though, There were people out there say this whole thing is just the same as that time Barbra Boxer delayed Senate proceedings for an hour. Who knew the president would attempt a coup?