"WHEN GOVERNMENTS ARE A THREAT The U.N. claims that guns used in armed conflicts cause 300,000 deaths worldwide every year . The solution proposed in conference 's `` Program of Action `` ? Keep rebels from getting guns by requiring that countries `` prevent , combat and eradicate `` what those countries who want to stop rebels from getting the guns define as `` the illicit trade in small arms `` This may be an understandable `` solution `` from governments that do n't trust their citizens . But it also represents a dangerous disregard for their citizens ' safety and freedom . Why ? First , and most obviously , because not all insurgencies are `` bad. `` It is hardly surprising that infamous regimes such as those in Syria , Cuba , Rwanda , Vietnam , Zimbabwe , and Sierra Leone support these `` reforms. `` To ban providing guns to rebels in totalitarian countries is like arguing that there is never anything such as a just war . In hindsight , would Europeans have preferred that no resistance was put up against Hitler ? Should the French or Norwegian resistance movements simply have given up ? Surely this would have minimized war causalities ."
"Do you think this resistance got their most useful weapons out of a normal store ? Please donÂ´t try such arguments without knowing about European history ."
"would Europeans have preferred that no resistance was put up against Hitler ?"
"Please try such arguments without knowing about European history ."