Senator Harry Reid, wearing his now trademark "Blues Brothers" themed dark glasses, has called for more background checks for gun buyers. But I wonder if he's not focusing on the wrong target. Maybe he should sponsor legislation for expanded background checks of politicians.

Imagine if an expansive background check had been made of Harry Reid before he ran for office. If Senator Reid had Las Vegas mob ties, a background check might have revealed it, he wouldn't have been elected, he wouldn't have disapppointed his mafia friends, and he wouldn't have gotten beaten up, assuming he had those mob ties to begin with. In that case a background check would have helped him avoid the beating of his life.

Now imagine if a background check had been made of Senator Edward Kennedy. If his girlfriends learned that he liked to drink a lot while driving, they might have been more cautious about letting him drive after their adulterous trysts with the Lion of the Senate.

Now imagine if a background check had been done on Bill Clinton. If women around him knew he had been accused of rape, and molesting women, more women might have avoided getting groped and getting their blue dresses stained with his adulterous gametes.

If a background check had been done of Anthony Weiner, discovering his penchance for sending photos of his compass directional genitals to ladies who weren't his wife, we could have avoided having him elected to Congress, and New York could have sent us an entirely different pervert instead.

A background check of Dianne Feinstein, Barney Frank, Elizabeth Warren, and others, not to mention Hillary Clinton, possibly could have helped us avoid beatings, drownings, male prostitution rings, rape, sexual perversion, and corruption of many different kinds.

When I look at Harry Reid in the same ghastly dark glasses that the vampires wore in "The Omega Man", as he rules over the Senate, and America, I think it is politicians, not the citizens, who should be the ones first subject to background checks.

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