What ideological advantage?
I'm not sure "ideological advantage" here is exactly the right choice of words. I can't speak for Balog, but you're displaying a peculiar obstinate naiveté about the realities and aftermath of a racially loaded self defense situation in America.
1. The whites in this particular area of Milwaukee will probably never be pro gun or pro CCW.
2. Even if there is a successful self-defense shooting by a white CCW'er, or someone open carrying a rifle, you're refusing to recognize the completely devastating reaction of the media, the police, the prosecutor, the community, and the aggressor's surviving family. Even if the shooter prevails legally because ultimately the law is on their side, this process can still mean months, if not years of having one's life turned upside down, and cause you to incur expensive legal costs and any other number of major life disruptions.
The natural cost/benefit calculations that anyone who actually has enough independent thought that they might use a firearm for self defense means they just won't be in that neighborhood in the first place.
My reason for a trunk gun is for the very unlikely event that a lot of bad things coincide with eathother in one day on a 10x bigger scale than they've happened seperately- rioting (can and has happened), transportation routes cut off (once a month phenomenon for me), power gets cut/natural disaster (least likely event, but the one that would trigger the other two).
It makes me feel a lot better that if I had to, could pick up my rucksack and carbine and could walk out of the city. I have a work buddy that lives near me that has the same plan and preparation- and uses the same ammo
I guess that sums up my feeling on the "trunk gun" as well.
My thoughts were more directed at the idea Micro alluded to by saying someone should buy a Bushmaster/AR-15 type rifle at the Shooter's Shop in the face of the late night fireworks/park mob.
He's just not getting that someone walking around downtown Milwaukee with a slung AR-15 would have been the "bigger deal" than the mob in the eyes of the city government and the MPD, and the local (law abiding) residents, no matter what WI law says about open carry.
I don't want to put words into his mouth, but I feel he's implying people should walk around Milwaukee's ghetto and borderline areas with rifles and "tame it".