No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.