Defiant? Not unarmed, you're not

Rico says one of the unmentioned concepts in reviews of Defiance (in the polite media, at least, of which his Rant is not one) was how rapidly the Jews realized that, in order to survive, they needed to be armed.
While there are Jewish organizations (Hadassah, the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the National Council of Jewish Women, among others) that (foolishly, with no sense of history) support gun control, there are groups like the Jewish Defense League and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, both of whom are vehemently against gun control. The JPFO even filed an amicus curiae brief in the recent Supreme Court case on gun ownership:

"If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars."
Silveira v. Lockyer, 328 F.3d 567, 569 (9t~~ Cir. 2003)