It really is simple. Gun control or at least what was on the table was a pile of useless crap. Too bad the dems who balked on passing it did it solely on the basis of politics and reelection and not on the basis of plain intelligence. What really bothers me about our system, which right now is broken, is that supposedly smart and successful legislators, who happen to be dems, can just go lockstep like stupid lemmings with everything the garbage in the whitehouse, pelosi, and reid tell them to do, without a hint of making up their own mind on obvious legislation etal designed to destroy this country.