Stewart Trashes Kansas: People Can Be Trusted with Guns But Not Welfare?

Jon Stewart tonight went after Kansas for 1) allowing the concealed carry of guns without a permit, a sign of trust in the people, and 2) cracking down on what poor people can spend welfare money on, a sign of not-as-much trust in the people. And Stewart found that to be a little backwards.

Stewart said Kansas believes the government doesn’t get to tell you how to spend your money or hold your gun “until you’re on the dole,” and then they can “treat you like a bad child.”

He also took a shot at Kansas being on the federal dole, so to speak, suggesting that maybe certain government services get stripped and then “see how you like being treated like the welfare queens you are.”

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

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