Newspaper publisher and media mogul Rupert Murdoch claims retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate, Ben Carson, would be a real black president who would handle the racial divide in our country. I wonder if old Rupert checked Ben’s birth certificate and other records to make sure. If he hasn’t the “Donald” might take issue with him. I am sure that the people, whose dislike of blacks, foments the racial divide want nothing more than the election of a “real” black president.

Speaking of Ben Carson, he claims the reason for the Holocaust was the gun control laws in Europe at the time. When questioned about his comments, he said, “The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.”

This brings up the interesting question of who would those armed people that would have stopped Hitler have been? In the nineteen thirties when Hitler started his pogrom against the Jewish people in Germany, he was wildly popular. The German people, who were coming out of a devastating depression, far worse than anything we endured, bought his rhetoric. This was before they knew what was in store for them. None of the other European countries were in the mood for a confrontation. Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany.

So who were those, denied access to guns, who would have stood in his way? Were there large numbers of the Teutonic citizenry lamenting their inability to assist their Jewish brethren during kristallnacht? Does the responsibility lie with the Jewish people themselves for not being armed? In the early and mid thirties, no person could have foreseen his future after being arrested. Is it reasonable to assume a Jewish man surrounded by wife and children would have engaged in a shootout with police even if he owned a gun? In our country we do occasionally read about such events, but they are rare. We have the most heavily armed populous in the world and the largest number incarcerated. It doesn’t seem that gun ownership reduces the number carted off to prison.

Most of the holocaust executions occurred during the latter stages of the war in the nineteen forties. By that time there were ten to twenty million men with guns trying to stop Hitler. Who does Ben Carson think was missing from the fight that could have stopped him sooner? Perhaps there were some fierce Laplanders we could have armed and brought into the fray.

I think when Dr. Carson studied the brain, he missed the part where logic is centered.

If this is Murdoch’s idea of a “real” black president, I will take the “imitation kind” we now have any day.