Ron DeSantis wants his own private militia but he's not the first to do that, Mario Cuomo did it in the early 90's.
It was his response to getting death threats from Sicily's La Cosa Nostra. Cuomo was part of the crackdown on organized crime co-ordinated between Italy and the US. Blood was spilled aplenty in Italy as two top tier Sicilian magistrates were assassinated both from Palermo: Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borselino. The Sicilians let it be known that Cuomo was next. That didn't stop him from showing up in Rome with his own private army and a bullet-proof car. Hubris had taken hold of the Sicilian mafia, while Falcone and Borselino were both Palermo judges, Cuomo is Campagniani. Killing him would have brought the US government down heavy on them. Not just that, it may have kick-started a war with The Camorra, a war that the Cosa Nostra was not certain of winning.
And why was The Sopranos so fascinating, they were an extension of The Camorra in America, all the top brass were from Campagnia. I doubt that any of you machismo men would call Chris Cuomo, Fredo, to his face.