David Perdue uses Russia's attack on Ukraine to push Americans to buy guns 

David Perdue on Saturday used the war in Ukraine to push for Americans buying more firearms at a pro-Second Amendment rally organized by Georgia far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The former GOP Georgia senator now running for governor of the Peach State said seeing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky open up his country’s armories to civilians as they entered war with Russia reminded him that Americans should be exercising their right to own guns.

‘You see what happened in Ukraine? Did you see the first thing the government did when they were invaded?’ Perdue asked the audience at the rally in

‘They unlocked their armory, they relaxed their gun control laws and, guess what? They distributed weapons to the citizenry,’ Perdue added. ‘It just makes it more important about meetings like this about why we have to stand up, not just for the Second Amendment, but for all our rights.’

Women and children in Ukraine are learning to fire and operate machine guns and AK-47 after Ukraine calls on its people to fight to defend Kyiv as Russia closes in on the capital city.

Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, who previously served as a senator from the Peach State, used the Russian war on Ukraine to push for Americans to buy more firearms and for there to be more relaxed gun regulations in the U.S. 

‘Did you see the first thing the [Ukrainian] government did when they were invaded?’ Perdue asked at a pro-Second Amendment rally organized by Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (right). ‘They unlocked their armory, they relaxed their gun control laws and, guess what? They distributed weapons to the citizenry’

For weeks now, ordinary citizens across Ukraine have been receiving basic combat training in everything from handling guns to making incendiary Molotov cocktails to tossing grenades. Pictured: A young boy learns how to use a gun on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine on Friday

Photographed on Friday, women and children in Ukraine were taught to use firearms during a civilian self-defense course on the outskirts of Lviv.

For weeks now, ordinary citizens across the country have been receiving basic combat training in everything from handling guns to making incendiary Molotov cocktails to tossing grenades.

Russian forces destroyed port city Mariupol, Ukraine last week, seizing the largest nuclear power plant in Europe.

Perdue told the crowd on Saturday that President Joe Biden has ‘taken away energy independence’ from the U.S. by relying on foreign nations’ oil and natural energies exports and ‘made us more dependent on foreign oil.

He also blamed Biden for ‘enabling Putin to become the murdering thug that he really is now.’

‘And so what we’ve got to do is we’ve got to stand up to them. That’s why I’m here today,’ he said.

Discussions about a multi-national ban on Russian oil are gaining traction as President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine stretches into its eleventh day.

Women and children were pictured Friday, March 4, 2022 on the outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine learning to operate and fire machine guns and AK-47s as Ukraine called up people to fight to defend Kyiv

Ukraine is holding civilian self defense courses as citizens are targeted and must contribute to defending the country against Russia. Pictured: A child learns how to use a machine gun Friday

Kyiv’s ambassador to the United States urged Biden to halt Russian oil imports in an interview on Fox News Sunday, the day after Zelensky made a similar plea during a video meeting with members of the U.S. Congress.

Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova called for ‘tougher’ sanctions on Moscow over its behavior as a ‘terrorist state’ as accusations of human rights abuses and targeted civilian killings mount.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken also revealed Sunday that the US was in ‘very active discussions’ with European allies over a wide blockade of Russian energy dollars.

He would not say whether the U.S. was prepared to act unilaterally on such a ban, despite the wide gap between American imports of Russian oil and Europe’s dependence on it.

Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer behind the US and Saudi Arabia. However its crude oil accounts for roughly 13 percent of global trade, making it the largest exporter of crude.

And while US markets only bought about 8 percent of their liquid fuel from Moscow in 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration, Europe depends on it far more.