No I do not believe owning an carrying a gun escalates anything. To legaly draw and/or fire a gun I or someone arround me has to be in iminant bodaly harm or someone has to be committing a forcible felony. You can not escalate beyond that.
The argument against nuclear proliferation is dumb too. One group has them an another does not. The group that has them does not want the other group to have them but they want to keep theres...
LEOs take a oath to protect society as a whole an to uphold the law. That is not the same thing as stopping crime an protecting you as an individual.