Carson said his original statement was an easy to understand concept.
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On CBS This Morning, Dr. Carson was asked if he knew who Chris Mintz was.
That’s not to say he’s changed his mind on gun control.
After another soundbite from Carson’s latest FNC appearance “bashing President Obama’s plan to visit with victims”, Vega explained that it followed a Facebook post from Carson that stated, in part, the following: “I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.” And I said what I would do. “I would ask everyone to attack the gunman”, Carson told ABC News. I’m not kidding. He does not appear to have any empathy at all, for anyone.
Carson also suggested to USA Today that kindergarten instructors should have weapons training.
“These people are in a hurry, they know that armed response is coming so they don’t want to have to break through doors and that kind of thing”, said Lt. Kevin York a former SWAT team member and current officer for the Vestavia Hills Police Department. “There are warning signs”.
Carson empathized with victims by recalling that two of his cousins were killed in the streets and that, as a doctor, he had removed many bullets from the bodies of gunshot victims. He made the same argument on Fox and Friends. He told Fox News on Tuesday that he would have rushed the gunman had he been in a situation like the one at an Oregon college last week, and wouldn’t “just stand there and let him shoot me”. You know, to make it seem like it’s an actual Q&A session and not a few callow bid for more votes.
Of course, according to the Department of Education, gun-free zones (like most schools), are statistically safer, by a wide margin, than non-gun-free zones. Carson says he would have sacrificed his life to help stop last week’s deadly attack in Oregon.
Carson argued that the criticism of his remarks was “sort of an immature attitude”.
Democratic voters, on the other hand, widely support (76 percent) stricter gun control measures.
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“I don’t deal with it to be honest with you because we’re living in a culture now where you have a group of people who sit there, they don’t try to listen to what you’re saying”, Carson, second in the Washington Examiner’s power rankings, said.
