I can understand the family's mindset, if only in an intellectual sort of way.
In certain demographics, criminality amongst young males is now expected, perhaps almost accepted. If the adolescent sons of every other unwed mother up and down the street also have criminal rap sheets a fair fraction of the size of the local phone book, the stigma begins to lessen.
They've given up and just raise their families around it, and it's just part of their life. The point is no longer to prevent the criminality, it's simply to cope with it, and hope that their young males merely survive it. And the brief sojourns in between prison stays, and the sky-high out-of-wedlock childbirth rate is more than adequate to ensure the next generation arrives.
The notion of CCW outrages them, as they view the licenses as hunting permits on their kin.
Too bad.
Too bad for us, to have to put up with that, I mean...