I never saw it this way... Good point. I think they just want to defend guns, but in an odd way (like defending military-grad weapons wasn't already crazy enough).
So when someone shoots someone or multiple people for no reason, they do the following;
Are they white?
If they are white - Mentally ill, deserves a second chance, praised like a hero.
If they aren't white - Terrorist, deserves the death sentence, they use the shooting as an excuse to be shockingly racist, like they weren't already.
Yeah... It's messed up...