All these "issues" - gun control, tree hugging, evil drunk bashing, etc. - are substitute religions. Each involves a sacrifice/offering - the gun, paper, a beer. There is no God, but there is a committee of do-gooders. This represents the first adumbrations of the change of religious guard that accompanies a new age (Animism -> Isis -> Mars -> Jesus -> MADD).
An anagram of "do-gooder" is "God-rodeo".