I've gone darker than that. I've argued that the obsession with "self-defense" firearms is kind of like a lottery ticket. You don't buy a lottery ticket to get rich. You buy it to fantasize about getting rich. Likewise, you don't buy a gun to defend yourself. You buy a gun to fantasize about defending yourself - to shoot some bad guy and be called a hero for it, rather than a murderer.

The simple answer is that the enforcers of the law don't usually come from poor and minority communities.