Carson’s comments were made in the aftermath of the Umpqua Community College shooting last week in which a mentally disturbed former student shot and killed 10 people and injured nine others.
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But Carson recounted Wednesday a story about being held at gunpoint where he reacted differently amid backlash over his earlier comments.
In an interview on Sirius XM radio, the GOP candidate revealed that a man held a gun up to him in a Popeye’s chicken restaurant once and that instead of taking the robber down, he redirected him to the restaurant’s cashier.
“From the indications I got, they did not rush the shooter”, Carson said on CBS This Morning discussing the Oregon shooting. “I said people who are trained and understand all the implications and you’re obviously not going to have a weapon sitting on the teacher’s desk”, Carson said. We’ve all heard the saying: guns don’t kill people. “That way, we don’t all wind up dead”.
“Clearly one of the most intelligent people in the race right now”, one voter said. “A$3 guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs”.
Carson faced a firestorm of criticism that a few interpreted as blaming the victims of the shooting for doing nothing as their lives were being taken.
Reporter: Tonight, Dr. Ben Carson standing firmly behind his comments suggesting the victims in the Oregon campus massacre could have done more.
Asked several times if the ceiling should be raised, Carson said he would “not sign an increased budget”. The only rationale that Carson offered for calling for this was that the loss of gun rights would be even “more devastating” than a body filled “with bullets”.
“Well, the first thing we have to do is be able to talk about it. We’ve got to stop paying attention to the PC police who say every lifestyle is exactly of the same value”, Carson said.
GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson appeared on SiriusXM’s “Karen Hunter Show” Wednesday evening and told a decidedly different tale about what he would do when confronted by an armed gunman.
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“She said she had multiple guns and believed wholeheartedly in the Second Amendment and wanted to get all the guns she could before someone outlawed them”, said Shelly Steele, who hired Ms Harper, a nurse, to provide care for her teenage son.
