There are just not enough white people of principle and integrity, like yourself, Richard, with a clear enough grasp of the facts who care enough to stand up to bigotry in day to day life... so, structural institutional racism has continued unabated, in most parts of White Empire around the world, especially in the 'settler states' and the 'mother of Anglocentric greed and assertion of white superiority, Engerland. .
Having a reduction in the vast power and privilege to people defined as 'beneath' you, is experienced as a loss by people who don't have much else going on for them.
As the great writer Toni Morrison said, you have a problem if you need others to be on their knees, in order for you to feel superior', (or words to that effect). The ownership of guns makes sense in the light of such psychological - sociopathic needs.
It doesn't matter what you have actually accomplished in life - you can get uppity Blacks to bow to you by waving a gun at them.
And hey presto, normality restored. You can feel on top of the world again!
