[fennecfoxen]

I'm not sure that it's safe to assume that the dynamics of international relations among nuclear and nonnuclear states can be so tidily extrapolated from the dynamics of society and interpersonal relations among gun-owning and non-gun-owning humans acting in their individual capacities.

[ganafagol]

Maybe not. But it's at least an attempt to a somewhat informed hypothesis, which a simple statement like "since it levels the playground" definitely is not.

[fennecfoxen]

true