Here is an article from about ten years ago, which I came across recently, that reveals some basic truths about why whites view this issue so differently from blacks. It’s a little slow getting going, but very worthwhile.
Race, Values, the O.J. Verdict, and Right-To-Carry, or
A Statistician Explains a Conundrum
By John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070706054607/http://www.john-ross.net/race&rtc.htm
I guess we’ll get to see where all those 80 million guns bought since November 2008 (plus the 400-500 million that were already around) went to, huh? We couldn’t pacify three smallish counties where the populace had to beg, borrow, steal or manufacture firearms (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan) so how is the same military going to go against hundreds of millions of well-armed, well-fed, healthy civilians with automobiles, night vision goggles, GPS, cell phones, CB radios, ATVs, walkie-talkies, plenty of survival foodstuffs and camouflage clothing?