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This letter could be addressed specifically to Ben Carson. It isn't.
Ben Carson recently commented, regarding the recent Umpqua shooting. His comment wasn't about how things would have been better if people would be armed. It was, perhaps, the second most annoying response. "What I would have done..." If you haven't heard what, exactly, he "would have done", you can at least guess that it was a fantasy-based bad idea.
Ben Carson is one of the people to whom this letter is addressed. Instead, let me address this to everybody who wants us to know "what I would have done".
Firstly, we're usually not interested in what you "would have done". Even if you really would have, it's rarely useful and certainly not applicable as the basis for policy.
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Ben Carson recently commented, regarding the recent Umpqua shooting. His comment wasn't about how things would have been better if people would be armed. It was, perhaps, the second most annoying response. "What I would have done..." If you haven't heard what, exactly, he "would have done", you can at least guess that it was a fantasy-based bad idea.
Ben Carson is one of the people to whom this letter is addressed. Instead, let me address this to everybody who wants us to know "what I would have done".
Firstly, we're usually not interested in what you "would have done". Even if you really would have, it's rarely useful and certainly not applicable as the basis for policy.
( Read more... )
