It’s highly unlikely that the massacre of at least 19 schoolchildren and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, and a commanding majority who supports the central priorities of gun-control advocates, including universal background checks and an assault-weapons ban, will result in legislative action.
That’s because gun control is one of many issues in which majority opinion in the nation runs into the brick wall of a Senate rule—the filibuster—that provides a veto over national policy to a minority of the states, most of them small, largely rural, preponderantly white, and dominated by Republicans.
Time to get Republicans out of office.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/senate-state-bias-filibuster-blocking-gun-control-legislation/638425/
