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‘Conservative Hero’ Ben Carson To Beck: You Have No Right To Semi-Automatic Weapons In Large Cities
Mediate ^ | March 3rd, 2013 | Andrew Kirell

Posted on 11/12/2014 8:29:24 AM PST by SoConPubbie



Appearing on Glenn Beck‘s radio show this past week, Dr. Benjamin Carson took a vastly different stance from most conservatives on the issue of gun control, claiming you shouldn’t be able to own semi-automatic weapons in large cities.

Carson became a newfound conservative hero last month when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast and laid out a series of criticisms of ObamaCare, political correctness, and tax policy right in front of the president himself. Many called the speech “inappropriate” given the apolitical nature of the event, but many conservatives lauded Carson for his “bold” and “sensible” suggestions for policy reform.

Asked by Beck for his thoughts on the Second Amendment, Carson gave the popular pro-gun argument: “There’s a reason for the Second Amendment; people do have the right to have weapons.”

But when asked whether people should be allowed to own “semi-automatic weapons,” the doctor replied: “It depends on where you live.”

“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,” Carson elaborated.

However, if you live “out in the country somewhere by yourself” and want to own a semi-automatic weapon, he added, “I’ve no problem with that.”

Watch below, via TheBlaze:


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bencarson; carson; carson2016; carsonplatform; drbencarson; establishment; fakeconservative; fakeconservatives; gope; gopestablishment; guncontrol; rino; rinos
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To: marron

That was my first thought. The gun-grabbers have deliberately obscured the distinction to gain an advantage among the many people who are unfamiliar with guns.


41 posted on 11/12/2014 8:46:00 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: coloradan
There’s a simple solution: ban large cities.

I like the way you think!

42 posted on 11/12/2014 8:46:26 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: SoConPubbie

F**k you Ben.


43 posted on 11/12/2014 8:47:24 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: csmusaret

True. I have explained the difference and demonstrated it to family members when I have taken them to a range.


44 posted on 11/12/2014 8:47:28 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: SoConPubbie
Ben Carson

Easy Peasey.

45 posted on 11/12/2014 8:48:46 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I wasn’t that excited.

He tells us our Second Amendment rights depend on where we live.

So I guess to Dr. Carson the rest of our constitutional rights can be denied by the government if we happen to live in a large city.

How Obamaesque. I will never vote for this fraud in my GOP primary or for President.

Any one who grabs Americans’ guns is undeserving of my support. For me, its the principle.


46 posted on 11/12/2014 8:49:24 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SoConPubbie

We’ve already reached the point where, in some areas, you can’t have guns if they are outside the house or loaded. I can remember as a youngster riding around in a pickup truck with a gun rack sporting loaded rifles, and not just during hunting season. That would get you thrown in prison now in some states. My how times have changed (and unfortunately will likely continue to change).


47 posted on 11/12/2014 8:50:57 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: SoConPubbie

CRASH!!!!

The sound of another falling Icon.


48 posted on 11/12/2014 8:53:58 AM PST by ZULU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qLDFiQcjlY Impeach Obama in 2015 !!!)
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To: SoConPubbie

He made a Gruberism.

A Gruberism is when someone says out loud what they would not have said out loud if they had thought before they spoke. It is an accidental truth from the mouth of a liar.

It is the Holy Spirit has fun with liars.


49 posted on 11/12/2014 8:55:38 AM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: SoConPubbie

From zero to politician in 3.8 seconds.


50 posted on 11/12/2014 8:55:56 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: bigdaddy45

He failed the second amendment a long time ago. Months ago I got a call asking me to support him, financially, the call was described as a poll,and I told them I didn’t like his stand on the Second Amendment. I believe after that he modified his stand but has relapsed, in my humble opinion those living in a city are more likely to be in need of semi-autos than those in rural ares. The only reason I have for noy supporting fully automatic is ammo consumption, governments can afford it private citizens cannot, we will need to conserve. Anyone who has not done something that has caused him to lose his civil rights should own the “assault weapon” of the day. Of course the powers that be are making it more difficult to not break the “law”


51 posted on 11/12/2014 8:56:33 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Too bad, I freaking loved that guy.

No malice, but yeah, he stomped on my Red Line.

Well, bye.


52 posted on 11/12/2014 8:57:05 AM PST by gaijin
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To: SoConPubbie

There goes our token negro.


53 posted on 11/12/2014 9:00:18 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Enterprise

They would also be shocked to learn how fast a slide action long gun can be fired.


54 posted on 11/12/2014 9:00:32 AM PST by csmusaret (Will remove Obama-Biden bumperstickers for $10)
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To: tioga

He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


55 posted on 11/12/2014 9:01:07 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Enjoy your retirement, Dr. Carson.


56 posted on 11/12/2014 9:01:58 AM PST by 'smith
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To: SoConPubbie

“It depends on where you live.”

Bzzzt! Wrong answer doctor. Step to the rear...Next!

5.56mm


57 posted on 11/12/2014 9:02:46 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Enterprise

“Dang! So we should only have single action pistols, lever action rifles, or pump action shotguns?”

If you read their fine print pump shotguns and lever action rifles are also “assault weapons” and of course they don’t want you to own any handgun. If you moved to rural Alaska they would probably, with registration and background check and a receipt for your trigger lock and gun safe, allow you to have an old model 67 Winchester single shot, bolt action .22, but you would only be able to buy “ratshot” with a dollar a round tax on it.


58 posted on 11/12/2014 9:03:45 AM PST by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Bennie, we hardly knew ye.


59 posted on 11/12/2014 9:05:43 AM PST by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: SoConPubbie

This guy can now crawl back to the hole he came from.

All those who thought he was so great, do you see the handwriting now?

Never again!!


60 posted on 11/12/2014 9:05:43 AM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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