Don't bother with the practical arguments if you aren't willing to first accept the moral argument.
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Government is fundamentally corrupt through open hypocrisy: government is allowed to enact violence against its populace as the means of enforcing laws and regulations. We are not allowed to enact violence against each other or the government. An institution founded on hypocrisy is already corrupt and is only open to further corruption.
Note: this is not an argument that we should be permitted to enact violence against others to combat the hypocrisy. Rather, it is an argument against the government having a monopoly on the use of force while deeming it immoral when we do it. Aggressive violence is always immoral, doesn't matter who does it. Self defense is obviously a different story.