“Those who would hide their guns from government goons come to confiscate them, don’t understand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment.”
You know, in case 20 guys in ninja outfits with automatic weapons and a rocket launcher show up at your door at 0h Dark Thirty, and say, “Hey, there, Mr. Windflier, you neglected to turn in the 8 guns on this here list. Would you kindly get them and give them to us, buttstocks first? Because if you don’t, start, in about the next 15 seconds, we’re going to kill you, your family and your dog, and then get them anyway.” Unless you are a damned fool, you’ll comply...and a week or two later, when you are reasonably sure that they aren’t surveilling you any more, you’ll go to some friend’s or relative’s home, or to some deserted place, and retrieve one or more other guns (with appropriate ammo) that you hid away, just in case...and then you’ll be GLAD that you did so, too.
Do you honestly believe the government has the manpower to conduct 150 million house to house confiscations? Well, they don’t.
Do you honestly think 150 million gun owners would sit quiet, waiting their turn, for the goon squad to knock on their door? Some would, but many would consider such actions by the government as an act of war against the people, and would act accordingly.
The Framers instinctively understood that the only sure protection against tyranny, was to ensure the populace was armed. They were correct.
The whole ‘American Experiment’ would have been crushed out of existence long ago, were it not for the fact that we are an armed people. Our guns are the ONLY thing that has stayed the tyrants’ hands.