Ben Carson Says 'He Would Not Just Stand There' If He Encountered a School Shooter

2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson recently said that he would have attempted to stop the Oregon gunman from opening fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week.

While speaking on Fox News recently, Carson said that if he had been in one of the classrooms when 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer opened fire last Thursday, he would have attempted to attack the gunman.

"I would not just stand there and let him shoot me," Carson recently told the media outlet. "I would say: 'Hey, guys, everybody attack him! He may shoot me, but he can't get us all.'"

Carson has appeared in multiple interviews this week to discuss the recent shooting at the Oregon community college that left nine dead and nearly 20 injured, repeatedly suggesting that a look into mental health, rather than gun control, is the answer.

The retired neurosurgeon recently said that he would feel much more "comfortable" if school campuses had an armed professional, such as a police officer, to protect the students in the incident of a mass shooting.

The 2016 presidential hopeful has suggested that the main goal in approaching the problem of mass shootings should be to find what personality traits all school mass shooters have in common.

"The key thing to do is look at all of these shooters and see what we can glean in terms of their personalities in terms of what kinds of behavioral circumstances they have had in the past," Carson said. "There are warning signs."