While
Ben Carson defends his controversial comments on last week’s mass shooting at an Oregon community college by saying he’d have charged at the gunman rather than “just stand there and let him shoot me,” at least one shooting victim says Carson’s apparent victim-blaming left him “fairly upset.”
18-year-old Mathew Downing was called the “lucky one” by the 26-year-old gunman who terrorized Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon one week ago, killing nine people and injuring nine more.
“You, with the glasses,” gunman Chris Harper-Mercer reportedly said to Downing, “you’re the lucky one. If you give this envelope to police, you’ll live.”
Downing was then sent to the back of the classroom where
he watched his classmates get executed.