Ben Carson has had a pretty moderate record on guns… waaaaayyy back in the past. Now he’s running for president, which means it’s time to start pandering. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“On “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, GOP presidential contender Ben Carson unwittingly confessed that his party’s obstructionism on all gun control legislation means that it is only a matter of time before there is another school shooting like the one that occurred in Roseburg, Oregon.
Carson was bemoaning the manner in which President Barack Obama and Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton were deliberately “politicizing” the shooting. “Imagine a politician politicizing something,” he said. “When do we have people that actually want to solve our problems, rather than just politicize everything?”
“Guns don’t kill people,” he continued, “and the Second Amendment is extremely important. And Daniel Webster said that America would never suffer tyranny because people are armed.””*
Read more here: http://www.salon.com/2015/10/06/ben_c…