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by kcplate 210 days ago
Well it was definitely a talking point of the mainstream left.
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Certainly not - their argument was always that it doesn't make sense to argue that we need guns to overthrow the government. Not that the government is broadly trustworthy.
tbh "we can now trust our government to not overstep its authority and people protecting themselves against tyranny was no longer needed" sounds like an intentional misrepresentation of a leftist position than something many actual leftists would believe.
The political side that that often argues for more government in their political solutions seems to by default to trust the government “to not overstep its authority”?
The "mainstream left" isn't real, it's a manufactured facet.

Look at the number of historically communist or socialist countries with an AK-47/74/AKM on their flag.

How often did those countries allow their citizens keep their private firearms after the revolution?
If you rush forward to "after" you conveniently ignore the armed uprising "before".