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Ben Carson Takes Aim At Media Following Recent Remarks

BALTIMORE (WJZ)--GOP candidate Ben Carson takes aim at the media, attacking the press for attacking him over remarks on gun control.

After saying victims of mass shooters should fight back, Ben Carson tells of an experience where he pointed a man with a gun to someone else, and he uses Nazi Germany as an example against gun control.

WJZ's Pat Warren has more.

Ben Carson's recent remarks on fighting mass shooters seemingly contradict his own experience with a gunman.

"Guy comes in puts a gun to my ribs and I just said I believe you want the guy behind the counter," said Carson recounting a prior experience in Baltimore to an XM Radio host on Wednesday.

He was later questioned why he would deflect the gunman to someone else.

And on Nazi Germany and gun control.

"I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," Carson said.

Wolf Blitzer: : "You believe that if they had guns maybe it could have been eased is that what you're saying?"

"I'm telling you there's a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first," Carson replied, during a CNN interview.

Carson told the National Press Club luncheon today the media sensationalizes and takes comments out of context.

"I will not be politically correct and that's one of the reasons a lot of people in the press don't like me, but it's OK," Carson said.

And Carson said it seems the more the press attacks him, the better his campaign does.

Carson has been polling a steady second to Donald Trump, and leads the pack among certain categories of republican voters.

A poll released yesterday has Trump leading by 4 points, 26 percent and Carson 22 .

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