Probably the only logical way to see it.
When the government thugs come to your door for guns, gold, or as is certainly possible, your food, capitulation will simply mean that you will die a hungry, poor slave at a later date.
During the depression the government considered people that wanted to keep their gold to be “hoarders”.
I don’t believe in “benevolent despotism” like the liberal sheep in this country do.
Back when I was considering buying gold, the salesmen would always try to convince me to buy “unconfiscatable” collectable gold coins. My answer always was that I’m an old fart and they will not confiscate any gold I had in my lifetime ... nor that of the first one or two people that tried to do it.
Because back then, armies would show up and take whatever they "needed." They'd clean you out of your food, your crops, etc. Potatos grow underground, and were not widely known. Word spread through the grapevine, and people planted their own stashes of potatos so they'd have hidden food that the armies wouldn't find and steal.