The actual argument is to limit violence to specific institutions - what those institutions do is perpendicular. For example, neither desegregation nor the Holocaust were “status quo,” but both relied on limiting who could threaten force.

Proliferation isn’t a safe bet, either, as shown by Mexico’s cartels. Democratic power structures at least theoretically reflect everyone’s concerns. Plain old gangs tend to assert control through merciless terror. However you feel about American power structures - you probably won’t get shot in your home for tweeting ‘man, I hate these power structures.’