I am very much in favor of a balanced budget amendment and term limits.
Problem is DC is an absolute snakepit. There aren’t more than 10 members of congress I would trust to be in the same room with the US constitution holding a pen. Most state houses are infested as well. Fox/henhouse. Whoever decided to put the lawyers in charge of the country screwed up bigly.
E R says, “I am very much in favor of a balanced budget amendment and term limits”.
I am not in favor of either. They both are as bad if not worse than an Article V event. That said, your snake pit reference is spot on and the primary reason the Constitution should stay hermetically sealed as it is in the Museum.
I am not even sure I would trust the Founding Fathers should they have grown up in our day, and especially if we have another school shooting. You can take it to the bank that we will, and guns will get the blame, as sure as God made man.
Just as sure as an inanimate object is not the cause of School shootings, the Constitution of the United States is not the cause of our present condition. We know it is human nature, power, greed, control, big Government, and everything the Constitution stands against. Maybe there are even a few conspiracies no one has even though of. BUT, Open it for meddling mankind, and you are taking a risk no matter what you think can’t ever happen because we have built in protections. Poppycock, horse manure, and a few other statements. Unfortunately, the only proof will be what happens thereafter, and no one in their right mind ought to think that chance should be worth taking.