There is a larger purpose served in private citizens merely purchasing large quantities of ammunition and numbers of firearms.
Messages are sent, and by all but the densest, understood.
To a crook, to a politician, to a population wishing to discourage tyrants.
Without firearms, we are subjects, not citizens.
The 2nd amendment is not about plinking.
It is not about hunting.
It is not about sport shooting.
It is about nothing except the ability to resist tyranny.
In the 20th century, Stalin murdered sixty million of his own subjects.
Mao Dzedong murdered a similar number of Chinese.
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge murdered possibly as many as three million of their fellow Cambodians.
The Communist government of the Vietnam reunited by the abandonment of South Vietnam by the Democrat-infested U.S. Congress, murdered several million of their fellows, and forced up to three million others to flee to other countries in rickety boats. Remember the Vietnamese Boat People?
The Argentine Junta that tried to expropriate Las Islas Malvinas to distract their oppressed public, had “disappeared” tens of thousands of young citizens, whose corpses were found only after the Junta was overthrown.
While the US did its dance over Watergate, with the young Hillary Rodham lying and hiding documents that should have been available for the Watergate investigators, Russia managed to undermine the government of Portugal, and engineer a coup. The result was chaos in the Portuguese military’s management of its struggle with MPLA rebels in Angola, and its eventual withdrawal. Followed by a bloodbath as the MPLA and UNITA rebels escalated their contest for control.
Look around the world, folks. In almost every instance where a government has confiscated firearms from its own people, that government has gone on to inflict murder against its domestic opponents on a scale far beyond any external adventures.
All the purchases will help remind the tyrants and bullies that it’s likely to be more difficult than they think to disarm the U.S.
