It is a central question of civil society that the state should hold a monopoly on violence to prevent individuals or private groups from running their own militias.

“In most developed nations, the state has a monopoly on violence. The state says we're really the people who get to regulate who can use guns or who can use violence. And um and that's uh been developed over time because you didn't really want to have a situation where you had a number of people um r”