“You see these women, members of Parliament, sitting there…with Kalashnikovs on their lap. This is a boost to the Second Amendment. This is why people need to have the ability to get arms,” former Secretary of Education and drug czar William Bennett told Stuart Varney Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Company.

In fact, Second-Amendment activists have been saying for a month, even before the February 24 attack on Ukraine, that Putin’s aggression bolsters their position.

“Anti-gun commentators — Joe Biden among them — often mock the idea that an armed populace poses any obstacle to a modern military force,” the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action wrote on February 7. “But some are singing a different tune, now that ordinary Ukrainians are taking up arms in response to a potential Russian invasion.”