“As a Doctor, I spent many a night pulling bullets out of bodies. … but I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.”
In a graphic elaboration of Jeb Bush’s “stuff happens,” retired brain surgeon Ben Carson explained that you’re gonna die of gunshot wounds to defend a willful misinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
Dr. Carson also suggested that President Obama forgo visiting the grieving families of Roseburg, Oregon and wait for the next mass shooting. There’s never a long wait; there’s been a mass shooting almost every day this year.
Thanks, Doc. Time for a second opinion.
More:
“Ben Carson perfectly explains the Republican position on guns,” Paul Waldman, Washington Post
“Sandy Hook victim’s daughter calls Ben Carson ‘insensitive’ for Oregon reaction,” Tom McCarthy, The Guardian
“Here’s What Happened When Ben Carson Was Actually Confronted by a Dangerous Gunman,” Miles E. Johnson, Mother Jones
“Ben Carson’s far from the only conservative saying gun control caused the Holocaust,” Matthew Yglesias, Vox
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