In an interview on Sirius XM radio, Carson described an encounter he had at a Popeye’s restaurant in Baltimore.
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Carson also knocked down the notion that gun-free zones would mitigate gun violence in the country, noting that gun-free zones would actually draw the gunman to the particular site.
Instead of apologizing for his poor understanding of this widely reported dimension of the Umpqua Community College tragedy, Carson said that Mintz’s case “verifies what I’m saying; that’s exactly what should be done”. The Left would have you believe that a man that asked Christians to stand up (and then executed them one by one) would obey “new gun laws”.
Carson’s campaign says his remarks have only fueled support from donors.
On Monday, he wrote on Facebook, “I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away”.
“I wasn’t fearful for my life at all”. I said people who are trained, and understand all the implications and, you obviously are not just going to have a weapon sitting on a kindergarten teacher’s desk. “And I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter, ‘” Carson.
“They don’t try to listen to what you’re saying, they’re just trying to find a defect so that they can cause more division”, he told co-host Martha MacCallum.
“I suspect he probably has had it fed to him by somebody who misconstrued it and I think if he had heard the complete explanation I gave, he’d know that I’m not complaining about any of the victims”, Carson said.
On Wednesday he spoke to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and responded to critics who called his comments insensitive.
“The bad guys are going to have them anyway”, Trump said Tuesday in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Needless to say, the media (and frankly any decent person) piled on, calling the comments offensive and outrageous. The gunman, who had a history of mental illness, killed himself after police officers arrived on the scene and exchanged gunfire.
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Carson also argued, “There’s an incredible double standard” between how racist criticisms of him and President Obama are treated.
