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if you go far enough left, you get your guns back

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Japanese Meaning
政治的文脈で用いられる諺で、穏健派の左派(リベラルや中道左派)が一般的に銃規制を支持するのに対し、極左(例えばマルクス主義者など)はかえって銃の所持や自衛権の回復を支持するという、風刺的な意味を示しています。
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政治的なことわざに「極端に左に行くと銃が戻ってくる」というものがあり、これは銃規制を支持するリベラルや中道左派に対して、マルクス主義者のような極左はそのような規制に反対することが多い、という意味です。

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if you go far enough left, you get your guns back

(politics) Liberals or center-leftists widely support firearm restrictions, while those on the far left, such as Marxists, do not.

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if you go far enough left, you get your guns back

As a political proverb goes, if you go far enough left, you get your guns back, suggesting that liberals and center-left politicians who favor gun control may be contrasted by far-left groups who oppose those restrictions.

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As a political proverb goes, if you go far enough left, you get your guns back, suggesting that liberals and center-left politicians who favor gun control may be contrasted by far-left groups who oppose those restrictions.

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