October 06, 2015 11:58 AM UTC

Ben Carson Says Some Ridiculous Stuff About the Oregon Shootings

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• by: Colorado Pols

Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson has a pretty large following in Colorado, where conservative Republicans have regularly voted him #1 on straw polls in advance of the 2016 Presidential election. We won’t go into detail here about why Carson is so popular among Colorado Republicans, but we do wonder why anyone could support a Presidential candidate who is this obtuse. From the New York Times:

Ben Carson defended his position on Tuesday that tougher gun control measures would not curb violence and said that he would have been more aggressive in the face of a shooter than the victims of last week’s attack in Oregon.

The remarks on Fox News came a week after a gunman entered a community college classroom in Oregon and opened fire on students after asking them to say if they were Christians. Mr. Carson, a Republican presidential candidate who has been rising in recent polls, said that if he were in the classroom he would have handled things differently.

“Not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me,” Mr. Carson said, explaining that he would defend his faith at any cost. “I would say: ‘Hey, guys, everybody attack him! He may shoot me but he can’t get us all.’”

Uh, yeah. It’s easy to play Monday Morning Quarterback about a mass shooting when you aren’t the one standing in front of someone with a gun.