How Ben Carson Appears to Be Second-Guessing Oregon Shooting Victims
  • 9 years ago
As the GOP candidate has come under fire for his controversial gun control comments, Ben Carson has repeatedly attempted to provide the American people with a solution if a massacre - such as the one that happened at Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week - were to happen again.
"From the indications I got, they did not rush the shooter," Carson said on CBS This Morning discussing the Oregon shooting.
"The shooter can only shoot one person at a time, he cannot shoot a group of people."
Carson suggested that the victims should have rushed the shooter to prevent more lives from being lost, telling ABC News yesterday that he would have confronted the gunman and would have instructed people to attack the gunman.
The retired neurosurgeon has emphasized that mental health is the problem, and not guns.
He has stood by his position that gun control is not, but rather comes down to mental health, suggesting data collection is needed to prevent mass shootings from happening.
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