The real threat facing America, as anyone with half a functioning brain knows, is the rise of sharia law, organized in secret <strike>prayer rooms</strike> mosques and intended to destroy the country. (As opposed to, say, the unfettered manufacture, trade and use of assault weapons.) This led a dazed and terrified (and semi-hoarse) Jon Stewart to pull out what appears to be an M16A2 service rifle on The Daily Show last night. And with apologies to David Gregory, it was, in fact, plastic:

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