The communists came closest but that's because they did it over time. They don't have the capacity to arrest all of us at once, they didn't have the capacity to arrest all of them at once.
Had this happened in the soviet union, they'd be shooting protesters with live rounds and just dropping people.
Should they try that to a peaceful protest here, we'll get shitloads of people on our side and amped up and it will not go well for them.
2A is most useful as a deterrent, not a direct kind of thing.
The communists came closest but that's because they did it over time. They don't have the capacity to arrest all of us at once, they didn't have the capacity to arrest all of them at once.
Had this happened in the soviet union, they'd be shooting protesters with live rounds and just dropping people.
Should they try that to a peaceful protest here, we'll get shitloads of people on our side and amped up and it will not go well for them.
2A is most useful as a deterrent, not a direct kind of thing.