There's no doubt some people using emotive topics such as this for "quick point scoring", and/or use it to distract the news cycle from other less favourable st

There's no doubt some people using emotive topics such as this for "quick point scoring", and/or use it to distract the news cycle from other less favourable stories. But these sort of "distractions" do fall in to very fertile ground with the general public, so I'm not sure it's actually all that meaningful really.