LaPierre under fire

Predictably, one of the biggest points of contention in Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence was whether to implement universal background checks. The NRA's Wayne LaPierre opposes them because, as he put it, "background checks will never be universal because criminals will never submit to them." But Democrats argued that that is exactly the point: Mandating background checks will dissuade criminals from going to buy guns in the first place.