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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
Any gun rights person who says progressives don't learn from the past on gun control, i.e. prior dictators, are viewed as paranoid and nuts by said progressives. It takes more explaining to them to get them to understand the basic point.
On Germany, I believe Germany already had gun control in place prior to Hitler, via the Weimar Republic.
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I'd say that progressives learn very well from the past. It's how they're getting better at incrementalism in regards to gun control. Just look at how they invented the term "assault weapon" when their handgun ban push was losing support with the public. Or the comments around the 1994 AWB in regards to how the real goal was to normalize it and springboard to handguns in the future.
@mojaveman - I'm jealous.