"I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not."

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Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do elected officials turn the matter of taking a gun to church into a searing ideological question. But then, guns are not a religion in most countries.

— E. J. Dionne