Would it be feasible to to compare the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons between nuclear armed countries (if such exist), with the deterrent effect of a majority of citizen carrying firearms, inside a country (if such exist).
Especially under the aspect of keeping the peace by equalizing power. And under the aspect that a total disarmament in both cases would be impossible
The comparison is as feasible as comparing the budgetary policies of a nation to that of a household, or the governing policies of a nation to that of a household.
That is to say, not very. Historically these comparisons fall short because the environment a government operates in is very different from the environment of an individual. In my own informal studies, I have found people have a very difficult time intuiting on government scale numbers or government levels of sovereignty. They're just too far removed from individual levels.
