He thinks the Government is some threatening autocratic entity that the average citizen has to be ready to go to war again, just think of all the militia organizations out training in the woods supposedly preparing for the day of reckoning, the next Waco any day now
He says he has the guns to protect from "government overreach", but when the government actually DOES overreach, such as in the case of abortion law, he supports that overreach.
He can't articulate a single example of "government overreach" from which his guns protect him.