Probably OP was using "state violence" in its sense as part of a socio/political theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence http://en.wikipedia.o

Probably OP was using "state violence" in its sense as part of a socio/political theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence There's always been a strong connection between punk subculture and anarchist thinking (which is specifically opposed to this type of "legitimate violence"), so its actually a somewhat reasonable thing to bring up.