Rosa Brooks of the Georgetown University Law Center blamed the U.S. Constitution for Monday’s Independence Day massacre in Illinois, Mediaite reports. Police say Robert Crimo III killed seven people and wounded scores of others from a rooftop during a Fourth of July parade. He was charged with seven counts of murder Tuesday afternoon. More charges might follow.
The country’s latest high-profile mass shooting has reignited the debate surrounding gun laws. On MSNBC’s The ReidOut Tuesday, Brooks told host Joy Reid the country’s Founding Fathers are ultimately to blame for the shooting and others like it.
“What do you make of this sense that we now essentially live at the mercy of whoever can go into the store and buy an AR-15 and decide to shoot whoever is available?” Reid asked.
Brooks responded the sounds heard on videos of the Highland Park shooting reminded her of those in foreign war zones.
“We are now living in that world, too, and we have brought it on ourselves,” Brooks said. “We can’t say, oops, it’s the Russians’ fault, they shouldn’t have invaded us.” She added,
This is us. This is 100% us and it’s because we are essentially slaves to a document that was written more than 230 years ago by a tiny group of White slave-owning men. And we cannot break out of the bondage that we have imposed on ourselves from feeling like we have to– everything by our Supreme Court is decided in reference to this ancient document which is just not serving us well.
Brooks concluded the Constitution is “causing enormous problems and enormous tragedies.”
Label her how you like, but she is 100% right
She’s wrong. The 2nd amendment protects us against slavery. Without guns we’d have a total totalitarian takeover. If there’s any slavery it’s imposed by people like her with her vaccine mandates, mandatory schooling, over the top taxation, and regulation galore.
Would gun owning make victims of the nazis and their collaborators have a better chance Of survival?
Nobody disagrees on background checks. You have to ask yourself honestly which one came first. Is their agenda driving this push for this law?
Perhaps its these sick peoples application (or non-application) of current laws causing lawlessness? Like lax penalties for law offenders, revolving doors, blaming the victims, abolishing g-d defined morality?
Its always the people that make the mess that want to deny a normal person the right of self defense.
She can leave my country and so can you! You don’t like it, get the @#@$ out of here! Got to Russia! Go to Cuba! Go to China! Go to Venezuela! Just get out of my country! You’re a disgusting person.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTRE – ANOTHER WOKE SCHOOL YOU CAN CROSS OFF THE LIST OF SERIOUS ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS. WE NEED A LIST OF UNIVERSITIES THAT ARE STILL NORMAL.
Stupid Karen. We don’t need white females lecturing us about slavery.
prof. brooks, how come they didnt have all the problem america has today e.i. drugs alcohol depression suicide no family life technology problems ect. even though they wrote and had the institution? what comes to mind is what the chofetz chaim said theyre making the world but the torah makes people! how true today more than ever!
I wouldn’t quite say it the way she did, but the fact is the NRA and its supporters are taking a man made document written for 1776 and giving it the same status as Halacha LeMoshe MSinai. This is absurd. Why in the world does anyone need a high-powered rifle except to cause mass murder.
You need high powered rifles to defend against government tyranny. If the police have them, the people need them too. Australia gave up its guns and found itself in a police state.
I couldn’t agree more with you – her biased “woke” comments are stupid as all if not most of them are – but gun-worship is plain idiocy
Guns are not the problems. The ones behinds the shooters are the problem.
DON’T LET PEOPLE WHO SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH ARMED SECURITY TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN’T OWN A FIREARM TO DEFEND YOURSELF.
Crack crack. Crazy mind.
dear a yid, your’e right but “dont let perfect be the enemy of good” because just think of the alternatives!!!
HOW ABOUT THE MOVIES YOU PRODUCE AND SHOW, IT IS ALL ABOUT VIOLENCE SO SHUT HOLLYWOOD OR SHUT UP