Maybe let me put this in more personal terms that you can understand.
We know your grandmother and great grandmother escaped from two Russian concentration camps during WWII as they were killing Slavic Germans. What if they found safe haven with sympathetic Slavic Germans running an underground railroad at underground camps nearby -- just a dozen miles outside of each camp. These havens had established escape and supply routes that had successfully lead hundreds of Slavic Germans outside of the country.
However, what ultimately happened was Russian soldiers eventually discovered these camps within their borders and executed everybody, including your grandmother and great grandmother while they were there.
And then Ben Carson steps in and says, "If I came across those camps, I would have not stopped and instead kept running for the Turkish border." As if blaming the victims.
They escaped the first time. Captured, sent back by the same people that encamped them once (and had already executed many of the men from their village). The 2nd time they escaped they trekked through Hungary en route to Vienna...somewhere between the camp and the Serbian/Hungarian border soldiers were getting closer so a couple women without children or family split up to try and pull those in pursuit away from the few remaining that had children, my great grandmother and 13 year old the grandmother stayed course.
Needless to say, I am here because they survived because some extremely brave individuals met their end so others could live. I find absolutely no offense to what Carson said and I can guarantee you my grandmother or great grandmother if she was still alive wouldn't have either. They were in a do or die situation twice and instead of waiting it out they took their chances and survived.
Some people wait it out and die, others try to flee and die. Some survived waiting it out, others did not. All Carson said was what he would have done when asked.
Hillary has compared her political opponents to terrorists before and not a damn word was said about it in the media and yet we have people criticizing Carson. That might have nothing to do with the topic but the double standard needs to be mentioned.
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You know, I watched Carson's interview with Blitzer yesterday and he continues to have to clarify his comments. It's fascinating how the media takes out of context what he actually said. Blitzer tries to argue the point that Carson was saying that the students should have done more, which is NOT what he was saying at all. The question that he initially answered the other day was what would he have done if he was on his knees with a gun to his head and the gunman asking him what religion it was. With a gun already to your head and knowing the same thing happened with other students and you were next in line AND knowing that when you answer the question you were taking a bullet to the head THATS the point at which Carson said he as a person would have decided to go down fighting.
It's pointless to continue this debate...people will continue to take the edited version of his comments that were taken out of context.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/politics/ben-carson-gun-control-2016-election/