[Silly that you had to explain that twice.]
Too many don’t understand that the worst case isn’t getting sent off to war abroad - it’s getting blown to bits by howitzer rounds or even nuked by a hostile domestic government. Punitive massacres were employed by Alexander, Caesar, and so on. When the Second Temple was razed, hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered, the rest sold into slavery. If dictatorship is coming, you want to be among the people in charge of the bombs, not the ones being bombed.