Carson wrote that the “people have a right to any type of weapon that they can legally obtain in order to protect themselves”.
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“If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, I would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon”, he says. Governor Bobby Jindal says the gunman’s father failed to raise his son and that he should “be ashamed of himself and he owes us all an apology”.
The gunman reportedly singled out Christians during his shooting rampage. ABC’s Cecilia Vega with how he answered that question.
In separate interviews with news media Tuesday and Wednesday, Carson described how he would have reacted if he’d been caught up in the shooting at Umpqua Community College on Thursday.
“Not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me”, Carson told Fox & Friends on Tuesday in response to a question about how he’d have handled the gunman in a hypothetical situation. That is the ultimate test of your faith.
VEGA: Carson didn’t end there. “Because unfortunately this is probably not going to be the last time this happens”, he told CBS.
He went on to admit that while the violence is breathtaking, taking away our right to bear arms would be more devastating than any body he’s operated on.
“Reading people like Daniel Webster, who talked about tyranny in Europe and said it would never occur in America because the American people were armed”, he said. “You have no idea what you would do”.
Has anyone made the case yet that Ben Carson is an unfeeling robot that is mimicking human emotions as best he can where his algorithm deems it appropriate?
Previously he stated gun laws should focus on the “crazies” out there responsible for the mass shootings, according to NBC News.
The concealed carry law, which would apply to public schools, is set to go into effect on August 1, 2016, the 50th anniversary of University of Texas student Charles Whitman’s 1966 massacre, when he climbed the UT-Austin clock tower and killed 16 people – the worst United States college shooting until 2007.
President Barack Obama plans to travel to Roseburg, Ore., on Friday to meet with families of the victims, but several community members are criticizing the trip because they believe it’s an attempt by the president to politicize the tragedy.
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MUIR: Cecilia Vega in Iowa on the campaign trail.
