While I am opposed to excessive gun control, and grateful I currently live in a country where firearms are legal, I don't see armed citizens as much of a solution in the historical examples quoted above where a corrupt government is hell bent on wiping out whole sections of its own citizens.
It might have reduced the numbers killed slightly or slowed down the killing but not everyone can or will flee to the hills and be a rebel or go out in a blaze of glory when woken up at 3AM by six soldiers with AKs pointing at them.
