Ben Carson’s capacity for saying delusional things that test (and often cross) the boundaries of logic and rationality is at once impressive and terrifying — and it is a capacity that also seems to have expended at the National Rifle Association Convention on Friday, when Republican presidential hopeful after Republican presidential hopeful competed back-to-back for who could be most supportive of gun rights.
Still attempting to gird himself against gun lobby backlash over his questioning the easy accessibility of semi-automatic weapons in 2013, Carson assured NRA convention-goers any concerns he may have had about the Second Amendment have been cleared up. “I’ve learned how to express myself better,” the conservative pundit said. “I am extremely pro-Second Amendment.”
But Carson also harkened back to his days as a neurosurgeon for an example of why he’s so “extremely” in favor of gun rights, claiming his medical career helped him understand the disparate tragedies of suffering a gunshot wound, and being at all restricted in one’s ability to inflict a gunshot wound.
“I spent many a night operating on people with gunshot wounds to their heads,” Carson said. “It is not nearly as horrible as having a population that is defenseless against a group of tyrants who have arms.”
Carson — the right-wing activist who has asserted that prison rape proves homosexuality is a choice, who has blamed feminists for rioting in Ferguson, who has suggested Palestinians just “sort of slip” down to Egypt and so, so much more–has really outdone himself this time. This is delusional even for him.
