> Not because they take it from us. When you have a monopoly on violence (because you effectively own the government), you have a disproportionately large say

> Not because they take it from us. When you have a monopoly on violence (because you effectively own the government), you have a disproportionately large say about who gets what. The idea that somehow you can have a revolution when the other side has machineguns and all you have is a beer gut and maybe a double-barrel shotgun is naive at best.