Last week Ben Carson faced a considerable amount of criticism after he argued that the students in the Oregon community college should have tackled the gunman to prevent him from killing additional people. He recently went on a Sirius XM radio show to elaborate. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson appeared on SiriusXM’s “Karen Hunter Show” Wednesday evening and told a decidedly different tale about what he would do when confronted by an armed gunman.

The retired neurosurgeon is apparently a fan of the “do as I say I would do, not as I actually did” school of punditry, as he related to Hunter what happened in a Baltimore Popeye’s when a robber “stuck a gun in [his] ribs.”

“I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeye’s organization,” he said. “Guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs.”

Carson calmly recounted how he calmly responded, “I just said, ‘I believe you want the guy behind the counter.’” In other words, instead of charging the gunman, as Carson recommends other Americans do, the good doctor directed the man to the likely teenage, certainly minimum-wage-earning employee.”*

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