Ben’s claim on H’caust

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggests the Holocaust would have been “greatly diminished” if German Jews had been armed with guns.

Carson was asked Thursday by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about an excerpt from his book “A More Perfect Union,” in which Carson links the disarming of Ger man citizens with the killing of 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.

The retired neurosurgeon says “the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.”

He told CNN, “There is a reason . . . these dictatorial people take the guns first.”