Brings to mind the full context of the “kill all the lawyers” passage. That same social compact they willingly scorn is the same one that protects them from things best left unstated.
Yes. They really should be worried, but they think they are the biggest brains on the planet and can just think their way past any such hurdles.
But the fact is, they are attempting something that has never actually been done before. There have been revolutions backed by the majority of the populace, or at least a large plurality, where they didn’t need to engage in much violence because they had the numbers. And there have been fairly bloodless revolutions that were not backed by the majority, but were backed by the military and law enforcement in a country where the citizens were disarmed. There’s never been a successful bloodless revolution by a minority in a country where there are more guns in private hands than there are people. That’s new territory for them and they should not expect it to play out according to whatever little plan they have dreamed up.