Exactly.
It's not complicated
Yet you are taking the media account as accurate that people are shooting each other over the flag.
I am pretty sure that there is a little bit more to the stories than people are making out. There is usually some kind of verbal altercation in most of these cases, like the idiot with the machette that got shot the other day. It is not like the Black people just started shooting. It is usually the guy with the flag that kicks it off. How about the idiot the other day in Mississippi that ran off the road and killed his self. No one even shot him. He was just in a verbal dispute with some people in a car and he lost control of his vehicle.