"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 ."
"In hindsight , would Europeans have preferred that no resistance was put up against Hitler ?"
"Please try such arguments without knowing about European history ."