What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate

Well, as Amelia wrote earlier, Sanders’ proposal of budget reconciliation is also pretty revolutionary. As Ezra Klein wrote at Vox, “What Sanders is saying is that he will command his vice president to ignore the parliamentarian’s advice and simply rule that anything he wants to do is permissible under reconciliation.”

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.