Rob Rogers for October 16, 2015
Transcript:
Conjoined Twins in Need of Separation... Ben Carson Hey, gun massacre victims... quit being lazy and rush your attackers. A body with bullet holes is preferable to an attack on gun rights! Crazy Gun Logic: The Holocaust could've been avoided if the Jews had owned more guns!
For those who do not seem aware that this is a cartoon, and thus uses exaggeration to make a point, this is exactly what Ben Carson said: “I would not just stand there and let him shoot me,” said Carson during a Fox News interview. “I would say, ‘Hey, guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.’”And for the record, in the exact incident to which he referred, the gunman had thirteen guns, so, actually, he probably could have gotten them all.As for the Nazi reference, he said: “The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” which statement has been described by an anti-Semitism group as “historically inaccurate.” So if anything, the cartoon is merely a simpler restatement of Dr. Carson’s comments.