The biggest, most dangerous and best armed gangs in the world are America's 19,000 police forces.
Nothing endangers the liberty and freedoms of the ordinary citizen more than the cops.
It may be that a society needs some order to cement it together into cooperation and to offset chaos. Add to that the many thousands of federal agents of almost 400 different stripes. In Pennsylvania alone there were 5,301 state cops and related official gangsters. The control-freaks want even more cop control. Oddly, they don't want the cops in their own bedrooms.