When someone in your family gets shot -- or one of your friends gets capped...you'll think differently. Read this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/us-shooting-deaths-sandy-hook_n_2348466.html
I've had family members and my best friend killed by guns in Baltimore when I was young living there in the late 1980's. All were killed by our own race (since you are fixed on the race issue). One of those killings was revenged by members of the family who is unfortunately still in prison for that revenge killing. My best friend (George) was killed in a random robbery in downtown Baltimore with his girlfriend who he shielded. He was brilliant (had a photographic mind). Imagine what he could have contributed to the world. It was from that point in my life I have become determine to make self defense the main key life skill that must be part of my life and for all who follow the movement toward that civil right of personal defense, whether one is armed or unarmed. I will continue so to my last day.