A Georgetown University law professor says Americans are “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution as their adherence to that document — written by a “tiny group of white slave-owning men” — has turned the country into a “war zone.”<\/p>\n
Rosa Brooks made the comparison<\/a> yesterday on MSNBC’s Joy Reid show and highlighted the recent mass shooting<\/a> in Highland Park, Illinois.<\/p>\n “[T]here are people all over the world who have lived during armed conflicts, and when does the mortar fall on your house, when does the soldier or the tank come down the street and just kill you,” Brooks said. “We are now living in that world, too, and we have brought it on ourselves.”<\/p>\n “That world” obviously would be due to the Second Amendment to the Constitution, and according to Brooks “we are essentially slaves to a document that was written more than 230 years ago.”<\/p>\n “And we cannot break out of the bondage that we have imposed on ourselves from feeling like we have to\u2013 everything by our Supreme Court is decided in reference to this ancient document which is just not serving us well,” Brooks continued. “It is causing enormous problems and enormous tragedies at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n Did the law<\/em> professor forget that the “ancient document” established a very clear procedure by which to “break out of [its] bondage”? It’s called Article V<\/a>.<\/p>\n