Republican Ben Carson defends gun remarks

Blitzer also pointed out that not everybody has the experience to rise up and attack a gunman.

Carson also told to SiriusXM radio host Karen Hunter on Wednesday that he was once held at gunpoint at a Popeye’s fried chicken fast food restaurant in Baltimore.

“Guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs”, Carson recalled.

Carson: No, I would provide the kind of leadership that says, “Get on the stick guys, and stop messing around, and cut where you need to cut, because we’re not raising any spending limits, period”.

Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin said a recent focus group he conducted with undecided Republican primary voters in New Hampshire and Iowa where Ben Carson received a tremendous amount of support and praise was enlightening for him and he now understands the presidential candidate’s appeal to the electorate.

Carson, who is still receiving criticism for remarking last month that he would not approve of a Muslim US president, has been stumping for president as he hopes to secure the GOP nomination.

Carson has repeatedly argued since the Oregon shootings that gun violence does not justify stricter gun control.

“Most of the time their education ends with that first baby”, Carson said. During an interview with Sirius XM Wednesday (October 8) Carson claims to have kept his cool throughout the ordeal. “That way, we don’t all wind up dead”, he told ABC News while chuckling on Tuesday. “I want to plant the seed in people’s minds so that if this happens again, you know, they don’t all get killed”, he said. I would not just stand there and let him shoot me.

After the latest mass shooting at a community college in Oregon, President Obama said it seems as if these tragic events have become routine, but no matter what, law enforcement is using this as an opportunity to educate. I’m not going to have my finger in the air saying, what should I say or not say so people will think this.

“Ben Carson’s comments are insensitive to anyone who has ever been personally affected by gun violence”, Lafferty said in a statement emailed to the Guardian.

Carson is an accomplished doctor who has risen on his admirable history of self-determination and a message of self-responsibility. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and the others – they’re so stuck in their ways, they can’t see that the country has moved beyond the divisive culture wars of the past.