[Fat Charlie]

Governments minimize violence by claiming a monopoly on it. Ours leaves the door open by allowing easy access to most tools of violence, but still cracks down pretty hard on actual violent conduct- the 2nd Amendment doesn't make it legal to shoot people.

People are always going to harm people. Governments are collective organizations that do things for the groups of people that form them. I, personally, don't build bridges hire firemen or unilaterally decide what is so wrong that I will personally imprison or even execute people who do it. But we, collectively, do. And if we didn't do it collectively, a lot more individuals would do it themselves.