What the filibuster does to Congress, with the specific subject being gun control.
Our system doesn’t act even when we agree. That’s killing us.
"The Senate filibuster, requiring 60 votes on most issues, enhances the power of a minority to veto majority opinion. After the 2012 slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the Senate voted 54 to 46 in favor of an amendment on background checks crafted by Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), hardly a liberal duo. Those 54 senators, representing 63 percent of the population, were not enough to overcome an opposition speaking for just 37 percent of the nation. It’s hard to find a starker example of how the Senate vastly overrepresents the attitudes of rural states."
If we can Remember the Alamo, we can remember the victims of gun violence. And somehow, eventually, stop the madness of gun rights in America.
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