No, you're the one who seems to have missed that fighting hate with hate doesn't improve anything. Facing an armed criminal wouldn't make me want a gun; it would just make me dislike guns more than I already do.
If you meet an armed criminal unarmed and have bad luck, you will never more like or dislike anything...
I've faced authority abusing their power many times, but that doesn't mean I want to shoot them.
I've been and I would. If I ever get lethal cancer or get tired of life, some power-abusing cowards will wish they'd never been born.