What was the point of the Richmond 2A protest?

I keep saying that there is nothing interesting in politics lately, but then I consider that technically, there was a massive protest in the Virginia capitol yesterday. Thousands of people, many of them heavily armed. But what was the point?

They were appealing to an unamenable authority. From where I’m standing, it looked like a silly and pointless LARP. A cargo cult of the Civil Rights Movement. Boomers and Millenials all caught up in the theater and pageantry, without any understanding of how things actually work.

Am I wrong? Did they actually accomplish something beyond good feelz?