Carson: Losing Gun Rights Is More 'Devastating' Than Bullet-Ravaged Body

[RandySF]

Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Monday in a Q&A on Facebook that he had not seen a body with bullet holes "more devastating" than it would be to take away the right to bear arms.

On Facebook, a commenter Carson identified as Dan, asked the doctor whether his stance on gun rights had wavered following the community college mass shooting in Oregon.

"He wants to know if the tragedy has altered my position as a supporter of the Second Amendment," Carson wrote.

Noting that he had grown up in "the slums of Detroit," where he saw gun violence and, as a doctor, he had spent "many a night pulling bullets out of bodies," Carson said, "There is no doubt that this senseless violence is breathtaking — but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-bullet-holes-gun-rights

[Snobblevitch]

1. Carson does not seem to have any tact.

[villager]

2. Most gun proliferationists feel the same -- they're just not honest enough to admit it

n/t

[laundry_queen]

7. Yup. nt

[Fast Walker 52]

3. "Even as a slogan, this is the talk of a man who has left the common plane of existence behind."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a38614/ben-carson-oregon-shooting/

Even as an applause line fed to the rubes, this is la gook de gobble. Even figuratively, this is something that would get you sitting alone on a crowded subway car. I'm no expert but, I suspect that the crime scene photos from Sandy Hook probably are a helluva lot more devastating to look at than a copy of the Brady Bill is.

President? Seriously?

[Skittles]

4. they are cowards

absolute f***ing COWARDS

[Rex]

6. A doctor that loves guns over the bodies he has to pull the bullets out of that came from a gun.

Even Worf is shocked by that!

[Skittles]

8. there's something very wrong with Dr. Carson

he is seriously "off"

it's like he thinks he has to 'ho for the GOP no matter how stupid he sounds

[Rex]

5. What gun rights? Which ones?

What the hell is he going on about now? Even if there was no 2A, he could still hunt with a rifle! He would still be able to defend his home!

I don't get people that love or even pretend to love guns over human life. Don't get it at all. And from a doctor!? If there were NO guns, you would NEVER have to pull bullets out of bodies!

Carson has spam for brains and mostly just the gelatinous stuff at that!

[red dog 1]

9. K&R

What a poor excuse for a doctor!