“This happened when I was a resident, more than three decades ago”.

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice can not sleep forever”, said Thomas Jefferson, third president of United States. “We will not entertain any further discussion on this issue”, Carson’s Deputy Communications Director Ying Massachusetts told CNN in an email.

An unquestioned American success story, Carson was born poor in Detroit and rose to become an internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon.

When the passengers on Flight 93, faced with certain death at the hands of terrorists, memorialized the phrase “let’s roll” America and the media expressed gratitude and pride.

Bush was asked what the appropriate response should be to the latest mass shooting. We are living in a culture where you have a group of people who just sit there - they don’t try to listen to what you are saying.

After signing hundreds of books, Carson made no apologies as he answered questions from reporters for about four minutes. It is a theory academics and thinkers have been debating for decades.

Carson fervently believes in guns, suggesting that a well-armed population is needed to defend itself against tyranny.

The only logical explanation for the hysteria that has followed Ben Carson wherever he goes is that the media is terrified.

In wide ranging interview, Carson also appeared to break with fellow GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush when the former Florida governor said he would not reauthorize the Voting Rights Act.

The line to meet Carson, which snaked through the entire store as a steady rain fell outside, was filled with people proudly conservative and unapologetic about wanting someone who agrees with them to take over the White House after Democratic President Barack Obama’s two terms. And that’s why I’m bringing this up, because there may be a few of them who are still reachable, who still have a conscience, who still love America and their fellow Americans. “Whether it’s on our doorstep or whether it’s 50 years away, it’s still a concern and it’s something that we must guard against”.

The Democrats understand that they don’t have a single viable candidate competing for the nomination other than Hillary and her plummeting legitimacy.

Several Muslim activists briefly approached Carson at a reception before the event, hoping to convince him that citizens like themselves were as American as anyone else.