Remember when Obamacare was rammed down our throats at 3 am on a Sunday morning, and because the Dims had a filibuster-proof majority there was nothing we could do about it?
Now imagine a not-so-distant future where the Dims can do the exact same thing on any subject, including gun control, with just a 50-50 tie in the Senate and a Dim Vice President tie-breaker.
No, this way lies folly, and people are being much too short-sighted to see it. Get rid if the filibuster altogether, and you may as well also get rid if the Senate entirely. It will become just another House.
2nd Amendment would go bye-bye, you are not alone in this thought, at the same time nothing is getting done. Now remove the Filibuster and repeal the 17th? I have no problem with that. A 50/50 Senate w/ VP Pence breaking the tie? Sure, MA would send 2 Prog-Senators and TX would balance them out. Let the ( one term only ) Senators sent up by their State Legislators fight it out mano-e-mano on the floor, and if they really want to Filibuster, bring back the old fashioned one, not this no-show jobber, make them talk for 23 hrs straight...
Can you help a novice understand how the filibuster works? So if say in September we get a good spending bill, but only 51 votes, the Democrats can filibuster. But what does that mean? They can hold up the bill for how long? Forever?