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.