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The major issue with this ratcheted model of progress is that anything that takes more than a generation or two to lead to ruin is able to avoid the political immune system that is supposed to catch such things. All citizens disarming might be locally beneficial even for some time, and many generations of people correctly pointing out that it's a tremendous risk will look like lunatics right up until the tyranny starts and by then no one will even know when the mistake started.
Natural conservatism will favor gun ownership up to and until the point of disarmament. I basically own guns because I've always owned guns, back as far as I've known my family. The rest might just be rationalization backfilling preferences. This is why my most urgent 2a issue is to spreading gun ownership more widely. I'd happily trade a ten year universal background check bill for a decade of nationally funded high school rifle shooting teams at every American school. Get more kids shooting, more kids will become attached and open to gun ownership.
It's not the only way to argue a right wing point. But it's a natural status quo advantage historically enjoyed by the right, which the right forfeits when it fails to represent the world as it is. Once the status quo is lost, the right and the left are on an even footing arguing hypothetical utopias instead of factual reality.
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