They are told what to think and not why they should be thinking it. When our suburb started to change, our gun store closed down. Why? Because there was no business to be had with poor people and felons. That gun store was open for years when we were a white middle-class suburbs because we could afford those nice guns, and were able to buy them with no police record.
So if guns are the problem, how is it all those white middle-class suburbs have a large group of gun owners and never any real problems with violent crime? These anti-gunners never ask themselves such a question.