Ben Carson, a former GOP presidential candidate who is now advising Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Orlando shooting shows it’s time to get “much more serious” about fighting terrorism within U.S. borders.
“We have to get much more serious about the way that we look at potential terrorist activity,” Carson said on Fox News.
“If you were having a party at your house, and you were inviting 100 people, and you had knowledge that one of those 100 people was a terrorist intent on creating havoc, would you still have that party? Or would you say, ‘Well, it’s just one out of 100, that’s not so bad, we don’t really have to change anything.'”
“We need to very carefully examine how we’re doing things, and the political correctness is beyond the pale.”
The shooter was identified as Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen whose parents are from Afghanistan. Police were investigating whether he was motivated by radical Islam, although his father has told reporters his son was angered when he saw two men kissing.
About 50 people are thought to have been killed in the attack, and 53 people injured.
