So, the reason that modern gun-control has gotten so much popular traction
is that it plays on white guilt? This outsider doesn't think so.
I don't think it's as important to know WHY this present movement was initiated,
as to know why it has been so relatively successful.
Guns and dense urban contexts don't always mix easily.
I suspect that, as fewer and fewer urban Americans parked disposable income in firearms,
there came a tipping-point of general unfamiliarity with guns, a ripe situation for any
anti-gun movement --whatever its underlying agenda-- to make its move, and make
America afraid of itself.
JFK's murder had its effect too, no?