White resentment is fueling opposition to gun control, researchers say
The article firmly says that the racial bias is a subset of gun control opponents and is not applicable to ALL gun control opponents.
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To explain this, Filindra and Kaplan draw on a rich body of sociological literature about the language of racial resentment, especially among whites. Racial resentment, as Filindra and Kaplan define it, is a prejudice based in the belief that blacks don't value independence and hard work and instead push for special rights conferred by the government. It upholds whites as morally superior while ignoring the structural advantages of whiteness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/white-resentment-is-fueling-opposition-to-gun-control-researchers-say/
From the abstract:
Our study investigates how and why racial prejudice can fuel white opposition to gun restrictions. Drawing on research across disciplines, we suggest that the language of individual freedom used by the gun rights movement utilizes the same racially meaningful tropes as the rhetoric of the white resistance to black civil rights that developed after WWII and into the 1970s. This indicates that the gun rights narrative is color-coded and evocative of racial resentment. To determine whether racial prejudice depresses white support for gun control, we designed a priming experiment which exposed respondents to pictures of blacks and whites drawn from the IAT. Results show that exposure to the prime suppressed support for gun control compared to the control, conditional upon a respondent’s level of racial resentment. Analyses of ANES data (2004–2013) reaffirm these findings. Racial resentment is a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of white opposition to gun control.
This is not a stand alone, one of a kind study. Rather it is a part of a larger body that goes back many decades.
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Right, whatever...
We are pretty damn well armed here in NDN Country, we learned that painful lesson long ago. We'll stay well armed, if that's ok with you.
If it isn't ok with you, piss off, you have no say in NDN Country.
Just a heads up, in case you didn't know.
This group is their main hangout here on DU, for some reason.
LOL!!
Happens when everyone thinks that everyone else is using it.
....like bug spray smells.
Now 8.... 
The highest count of Concealed Carry permits in Chicago are the South and near West sides. Neighborhoods with 80%+ minority residents. (Just an anomaly, I'm sure)
At the same time there are 3 new large shooting ranges just opened or being built in the Southwest Cook County area. One opened just across the west border of Cook County, another opens next month in South Cook County, and a third is under construction just South of Cook County.
Stupid, stupid people, spending millions of $$$ building new buildings, getting expensive and hard to get County permits, and hiring people.
I guess they just aren't as smart as our resident gun control fans that know there are fewer gun owners every year as a matter of faith and all the old white men with all the guns are dying off. 
I suppose those hour + waiting times for a lane at the current ranges are Gun Nutz imagination too.
Boy, all those old white men are really getting desperate.
But I've noticed that we keep getting inundated with "surveys" and "studies" showing how wrong we all are, from the grabber side of the "discussion. Not much in the way of actual facts, like sinking gun sales, closed ranges, manufacturers struggling to stay open or such, but lots of "studies" we're asked to accept and swallow whole.
