What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate

Interesting that Sanders brings up his rating from the NRA, but in the 2016 cycle that was actually an issue where Hillary Clinton got to his left because Sanders didn’t have a thoroughly anti-NRA record.

I wrote recently about the links between suicide and mass shootings — a lot of those mass shootings can be thought of as violence suicides — but one thing that occurred to me was the fact that suicide and mass shooting have another thing in common, as well. Most forms of violence, even gun violence, have fallen since the 1970s. Two that have grown: suicide and mass shootings.

Killing the filibuster is something that’s come up a few times recently in response to (reasonable) questions like, “Well, how are you going to get [insert big, ambitious policy proposal] through the Senate?” It’s something that Warren in particular has been enthusiastic about, basically saying it’s undemocratic. But other Democrats, like Sanders, seem worried about how it could hurt the Democrats when they are inevitably out of power in the Senate again. And all of this discussion is rather hypothetical because before Democrats can really start arguing about getting rid of the filibuster, they need to win back the Senate.