Not Larry Bird, but Omri Casspi.
Dr. Carson wasn’t assigning blame to those without guns, but rather noting the lesson to be learned in retrospect.
The ignorance is strong in this one....
What Ben Carson said was no more provocative
than what the Father of the Constitution, James
Madison, stated in the Federalist #46 about
armed Americans as opposed to unarmed Europeans.
This is called reductio ad absurdum - an effective debate technique in tenth grade.....
The headline is a gross distortion of what he said.
Also, I don't think that's what Ben Carson said.
“.......Jewish people in Nazi Germany might have been able to prevent the Holocaust if they had been armed.”
Like us, depending on where we live??
HOORAY Ben Carson! Ben Carson for President.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
Not Larry Bird, but Omri Casspi.