Sandy Hook Says, "Shame!"

       Tonight Jon Stewart showed up some Republican Senators' contradictory arguments yesterday against having background checks for gun purchasers.


       Senator Grassley:  People who steal guns do not submit to background checks.

       Stewart:  But people who steal guns do not submit to our rules about stealing!  But we still have them.  The people in our country who spend millions of dollars to get elected to a legislative body known as the Senate are making the argument there's really no point in making laws because criminals are just going to end up breaking them....
                     

        And so with senators favoring background checks 54-46 and 86% of Americans supporting such a law, the Senate, (mis)guided by its own arcane laws and rules, rejected both a national consensus and the will of its own majority by scorning any just, reasonable, and compassionate gun control legislation.