Perhaps I can bring a different perspective into the debate. I'm a chaplain at a maximum-security Federal penitentiary, where some three-fifths of the inmates are Black. I talk often to inmates and their families about crime, firearms, etc., trying to learn from them (and hopefully gather material for use in RKBA and other political debates).
It seems to me that most Black people in inner-city areas grow up surrounded by criminal elements who misuse firearms at the drop of a hat (and drop it themselves if no-one else will!). As a result, the "bad-hat brigade" learn that firearms are a means to make others do your will, and are indispensable tools of the bad guy's trade. The good guys grow up in fear of the bad guys with firearms: and since they don't want to blame the problems on folks of their own race/kind/neighborhood, they transfer the negative feelings to the instruments involved - firearms. I think this is perhaps the main reason why many Black people simply reject firearms as the root of all evil.
I'm sure this explanation doesn't hold good for everyone: but for those from inner-city neighborhoods and ghettoes, I think it's probably fairly accurate, to judge from the reactions of literally hundreds of inmates and their families to whom I've spoken over more than five years. I hasten to add that I have shot with many Black gun-owners, who are not afflicted by this problem, and in talking with them, they largely confirm what I suspect to be at the root of things. Even Black LEO's, with whom I associate daily, agree on this as a likely cause of the problem - they have all sorts of difficulties explaining their own association with firearms to their families and friends in their communities, they tell me.
I'd really appreciate any additional input that others can provide.