This is what I have never really understood - the proclivities of GOP-leaning voters to say that 'it doesn't affect me, so what do I care?'.
True that not everything equally impacts everyone, but instances like this create the slippery slope that eventually can lead to things that impact the majority rather than just the majority.
The GOP has preyed on the idea that modern culture and the embrace of minority rights has destroyed the idea of community in many parts of America. I don't disagree with that assertion on some level as there have been book(s) written on the subject of the decline of community aspects in America. What I think you would find in a lot of the instances of decline, is that a 'me first' mentality became pervasive...thus the very people who complain about the decline, are the one's who have greatly contributed to it. In any event, through all the culture war bullshit and everything else, the modern GOP has done an immeasurable job of fostering division, and creating the me vs. them mentality the party has become so synonymous with. Resorting to cheap straw men and red herring tactics, with a straight face, they've managed to convince 60 to 70 million people that minorities are responsible for the ruination of American culture, community, standards, and ideals. Never once have those people stopped to consider the one's responsible are the one's they vote for every 2, 4, or 6 years without second thought. Mind you, the Democrats aren't innocent in all of this either, but the GOP has been on a mission for the last quarter of a century with this shit. After all, when the goal is to strip mine the very people you claim to be defending the values of, of all of their financial assets over the long haul, you have to create straw men to do it. One end result is that America, while being safer than it has ever been as a whole, is represented as being under siege by Muslims. All of the sound bites like sharia law, jihad, ISIS, suicide bombings, and on are smoke and mirrors bullshit that leaves out the reality that I'm more likely to die on my commute to or from work than I am to die by the hand of an Islamic terrorist. Orlando, San Bernadino, and Boston were all unfortunate incidents, but were not representative of the norm in America as it relates to Islamic terrorism.
