Ben Carson keeps digging, calls Anti-Defamation League’s Holocaust history “foolishness”

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4. Carson is not denying it happened. Blaming Jews for not having guns to stop them is disgusting.

It is beyond pathetic that to defend unbounded access to guns, he blames victims of shooting sprees and even Jews caught up in the Holocaust.

One thing that has been written about is that some Holocaust survivors feel guilt that they lived and others didn't. This is possible for the survivors of these awful shooting spree as well. Carson's comments, made from a safe place never having faced anything like that, probably hurt any who might give him any respect.

In the case of shooting sprees, one thing that is sometimes referenced is the "prisoners' dilemma" problem. For each student there, staying as inconspicuous as possible maximizes his/her individual chances for not being shot. Yet the action Carson speaks of - everyone rushing the shooter - could lead to fewer being killed.

To me, the comments on the shooting spree are worse than his Holocaust comments. He has likely caused additional pain and made it harder on the students who lived through this madness, who already likely have to live with memories of what they saw and felt that day. (The facts of the Holocaust are not in question and will not be rethought because of an ill thought out politically motivated comment.)

One other thing --- that idea -- that gun control allowed Nazis IS not new on the right. In fact, this is another case where someone on the right says something that is almost RW common "wisdom" and might be surprised that - outside of Rush Limbaugh's audience - what he said was completely unacceptable.