Dr Ben Carson on The Second Amendment:
“But the real reason that they put it [2nd Amendment] there is recognizing that there could come a time when our government itself could go off the rail, and could try to dominate the people, and the people would need a mechanism of defense for themselves."
“I would never allow the Second Amendment to be jeopardized.”
"I used to think they (guns) needed to be registered, but if you register them they just come and find you and take your guns."
"If we were only concerned about external forces, then we would be okay, but there are some pretty sinister internal forces."
"I truly believe in Second Amendment rights. I would never advocate anything to interfere with Second Amendment rights; however, I do think we have to be intelligent." "We need to engage in a discussion about, 'Is there something we can do?'" (about keeping guns away from criminals and mentally ill people.)
"We have to keep in mind that law-abiding American citizens absolutely should have gun rights."
“To threaten the Second Amendment rights of ordinary American citizens is itself insanity. Those wishing to ban all assault weapons fail to understand the original intent of the Second Amendment.”
"What we need to be able to do is to sit down and have a discussion about, 'Is there a way to ameliorate that situation and is there a way to keep weapons out of the hands of people who are mentally ill without compromising any provision of the second amendment.'"
His position lacks maturity, but is common sense nonetheless: there are people in society that do not need to have a right to guns. John Hinckley Jr and his Ilk, MS-13, and persons predisposed for violence and lack of respect for the law, to name a few. Your statement is refuted because his position isn't "terrible".
Secretary of health and human services or surgeon general.
I agree, I don’t vote on race alone, and he has to start somewhere first before POTUS.
We have an amateur in the POTUS now and you can tell its hurting this country and Americans.
Palin, Cruz, or LOSE. Choose wisely.
One of your quotes was Carson advocating for his idea of “gun control zones”. The guy is all over the place and goes whichever way the political blow.
See below.
Ben Carson previously stated that the right to possess semi-automatic weapons should be dependent on location and should be banned in heavily populated areas.
“I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it,” he said in an earlier interview.
Carson said, in his interpretation, the Second Amendment was designed to “give the populous the ability to assist the military in case of a foreign invasion,” a definition which would seem to contradict the absolutist view of an unfettered individual right to bear arms.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto mentioned previous comments of Carson’s in which he gave an urban/rural distinction on gun rights. Carson had suggested that he would not want a crazy person to have a chance to get a semiautomatic rifle in high-density urban areas, while not having a problem with someone living alone in the countryside with those guns.
“Do you think the Supreme Court was wrong when it found that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep arms in Washington, D.C., and Chicago?” Taranto asked.
“I truly believe in Second Amendment rights,” Carson said. “I would never advocate anything to interfere with Second Amendment rights; however, I do think we have to be intelligent.”
He said his point in saying that was to address situations—like in Detroit—where people with AK-47s are mowing people down.
“We need to engage in a discussion about, ‘Is there something we can do?’”