It's Not Me, It's You

As many of you know this week congress did not pass a bill that would require more background checks on gun buyers. This has caused a huge outcry of anger and disappointing across the nation, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. While the emotional and hot-headed side of me is thinking "yeah! How could they do that?! The Senate is full of sleazy douchebags!" the more contemplative side of me is thinking "Well these aren't just random people doing this, these are senators...that the people voted for. so the people have no one to blame but themselves." I do understand that we can't expect our voted officials to do our bidding exactly, but the point of a democracy is to vote in people who we believe best serve the public interest. We voted these people in, and they didn't do what we wanted. Is that the fault of the senators themselves or the fault of a misinformed public with little knowledge of the actual working of the system. What do you guys think?