&gt;  I think it has nothing to do with political side anymore.<p>Really? I find this conclusion a little baffling, to be frank. Without saying which side of the political spectrum is more &quot;correct&quot;, one can hardly deny that the right includes stronger reactions to perceived threats, practically by definition.<p>You can see it in the rhetoric, the policies, the constituents, etc of both parties. Even now, I would be surprised if policies like these were seeing equal amounts of dissent from the right and from the left (note that this is a different axis than liberal&#x2F;conservative).