On Wednesday, Carson told SiriusXM radio host Karen Hunter that he had been held at gunpoint before. “He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all, ‘” Carson told Fox.
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Tragedies like the deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon are usually followed by conversations about mental health and gun control.
Inasmuch as President Obama has been politicizing the shootings at a community college in Oregon, the responses of the Republican Party nominees have also been criticized.
“Guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs”, Carson recalled. “And I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter, ‘” Carson said.
Carson then dismissed a question from anchor Martha MacCallum, who asked if he should exercise greater caution in communicating remarks to the public, saying, “I think people know exactly what I’m saying, and they know exactly what the media is trying to do”.
Carson’s comments provide fresh evidence of the growing divide between Republicans and Democrats on gun violence and the potential for the issue to loom large in the 2016 presidential contest.
“Ultimately, it’s going to take a transformation of the heart, that only Jesus Christ can do in a person”, she said.
“You have to die from something”, he said. The retired neurosurgeon who is seeking the GOP nomination for president argued that the right to own a gun tops any effect of using the weapon.
In other words, not only did Carson completely cooperate with the gunman in this very possibly made-up fairy tale event, he actually redirected him towards a more appropriate victim. He survived the assault, but suffered two broken legs, his family says, and will have difficulty walking again.
Tying his position to his childhood in Detroit and career as a surgeon, Carson wrote in the post that he “never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away”.
On Thursday, Dr. Carson appeared on CNN.
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The so-called “war on Christianity” has become a rallying cry of sorts for many Republican presidential candidates, as states have debated “religious-freedom” laws that would, in a few cases, allow individuals to opt out of performing certain tasks that they claim violate their religious beliefs.
