My guess is that “urban conditions” is code for “black on black crime”, but the mayor is too busy being PC to address conditions in particular neighborhoods to actually solve the problem. Dems will never understand that when they presume persons of color are incapable of decent behavior, they are simply playing into the hands of the lesser elements of society.
I took urban to mean a city or a town. As in someone openly carrying a firearm in a town or a city may make the citizens uneasy.
an Armed Society
Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things that kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It’s a good thing.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988),
spoken by Mordan Claude in
Beyond This Horizon (1942)