setting priorities

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's appeal to what he called "common sense" at a congressional hearing Wednesday morning failed to sway two Republican senators [collins and graham] who said that giving the government the ability to block the purchase of guns by suspected terrorists would undermine the Second Amendment's right to bear arms.

it just sorta boggles the mind, doesn't it? i wonder what sort of horrorible event or events will have to unfold to bring about this use of "common sense" ---