Ben Carson
Notable Republicans took to national television Friday to rip into President Obama for suggesting, just hours after the fatal shooting of five Dallas police officers and wounding of six more, that the country ought to revisit the idea of clamping down on access to certain types of firearms.
From Warsaw, Obama called the shootings “vicious,” but then added: “When people are armed with powerful weapons, unfortunately it makes it more deadly and more tragic, and in the days ahead we are going to have to consider those realities as well.”
Former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson, on “Fox & Friends,” called the remarks inappropriate.
“Now is definitely not the time to get political,” he said. “Now is the time to use logic and ask ourselves, why do we have a Constitution? Why do we have a Second Amendment? They’re always saying you don’t need a high powered weapon to hunt deer. The Constitution is not about deer hunting. It’s about people being able to defend themselves from an overly aggressive government or an external invasion.”
Carson then said, if he were president and dealing with the aftermath of the Dallas shooting, he would tell the country to “imagine 24 or 48 hours with no police. What would your life be like?”
He then said, Politico reported: “Yes, there are some bad apples and yes, we will find ways to deal with them but in no way do we indict the entire police force. … But I guess the real issue is, you know, the president’s going to start saying, see – [we need] gun control.”
Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, saw similarly and said during a separate Fox News segment that former president Ronald Reagan had it right on how to respond to a national disaster.
Referring to Reagan’s touching speech after the Challenger space disaster in 1986, Huckabee pointed to the differences between then and now, and President Obama’s more “divisive” approach.
“[Obama] doesn’t need to inject the divisive arguments like gun control at a time of great grief for the nation,” Huckabee said. “And he ought to do for us what Ronald Reagan did after the Challenger disaster. And that’s remind us of what we have in common, not what separates us. And that’s why I’m always so frustrated. Barack Obama has such great potential to be a leader. But on the other hand, what he ought to be focusing upon, those police officers and the sacrifice they made and solely on the police officers and the sacrifices of their family, and leave all of the political discussions aside. There’s plenty of time for that. Today, there’s one thing that ought to be on the president’s mind.”
Another Republican Party politico, Colorado Senate hopeful Darryl Glenn, also said during the same Fox segment that Obama, if he’s not careful, is “going to exacerbate the issue by driving a wedge, especially a wedge between law enforcement and the people that they’re there to protect,” Politico reported.
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