On Monday evening, before his appearance on Fox & Friends, Carson wrote a Facebook post on his thoughts about gun control. Carson says he would have sacrificed his life to help stop a deadly shooting attack in Roseburg, Oregon. Reporter: Today, Carson doubling down.
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In an interview ahead of the release of his new book, “A More flawless Union”, Carson told Business Insider he felt the shooter’s actions were part of a broader assault on Christianity. “That way we wouldn’t all end up dead”.
“I don’t deal with it, to be honest”, Carson coolly responded.
“It’s weird that Ben Carson thinks a zombie [movie] strategy would be the way to go”, Noah explained, before catching himself and pondering, “unless – wait a second – slow, languid pace”.
“The people asking that question”. And so the idea is overwhelm him so everybody doesn’t get killed.
KING: You’re being accused this morning though of being insensitive to the victims because people say, look, you don’t really know what you’ll do if, God forbid, you’re ever in that situation. “They would be at a great disadvantage if they were attacked by an overly aggressive government and all they had to defend themselves with were minor firearms”. But, you know, these incidents continue to occur. “No. I’m for doing things that work, not for things that stroke the emotions”. He has also advocated for kindergarten teachers to be armed and trained in “diversionary tactics”. Rigorously trained, heavily armed Secret Service agents surrounded President Reagan and his staff. Yet all it took to wound Reagan, press secretary Jim Brady, a Secret Service agent and a DC cop was one unstable man with a gun.
Dr. Ben Carson stirred up controversy when he suggested victims of the Oregon school shooting could have done more to stop the gunman.
“The weapon would be secured in a place where kids can’t get to it”, he added.
The neurosurgeon, now second in the contest behind Donald Trump, said that if he was a student in Umpqua Community College on Thursday, when Chris Harper-Mercer burst in with six guns, he would have confronted the gunman.
None of the Republican candidates is publicly supporting expanded background checks, despite polls that suggest overwhelming majorities of voters in both parties would back such a change.
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He’s merely stating here that he understands that while the pin-prick violence of street crime or even the shootings of several dozen innocents is frightful, these much smaller crimes are far preferable than the stripping away the natural right to bear arms as many countries have done.
