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At the opposite side of the circle, left and right become one. There is no form of tyranny better than any other.

Actually, I couldn't agree more. Which is why I do what I can to "out" the radical right. But for all the wrongs seen by the social right, the worst would be to permit them to instill a set of laws based on their religious and moral belief system. I'm completely content with a republican form of government that recognizes that the rights of all citizens trump all powers of the state...or of radical groups, either the left or the right.

Somehow the tyranny that fostered and maintained human beings as property and justified by good Christians comes to mind when you mention tyranny. As does the treatment of women and minorities by good white male Christian landowners. So when I hear of the freedoms we enjoy today described as tyranny, because a relatively small group cannot impose its moral and religious philosophy on the rest of us, I wonder what history that person has been reading.

"One assumes that such comparison is somehow meant to justify a complete, unregulated right to keep and bear any arms the citizen wants, no matter the type, or the mental, age, or legal status. It is further assumed by such statements, that the purpose is to ensure that a Nazi like government can be effectively opposed by means of force of arms, which is ludicrous at best."

No one is saying this. We are saying that NYC, and other areas, have gone far beyond the divide between reasonable and tyranny.
As to your last claim, should we oppose a "Nazi like government" only with sharp sticks and rhetoric? Should we just surrender, cower and whimper?
Bring your own white flag, I won't be needing one.

The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
Judge Alex Kozinsky