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Despite how the media and politicians try to frame it, the divide is not one of liberal versus conservative, left versus right, or even urban versus rural. It is simply a conflict between rational thinking people who can draw their own conclusions based on something other than media sensationalism, and those who are fearful and need swift, inaccurate and inefficient action to momentarily abate their fears until another news story or political gambit stirs them up like a nest of cowardly wasps. The registry is today, and always has been, about fear-based politics—not public safety.
- Johnathan Ryan