Seth Rogen labels Ben Carson's gun ownership comments 'absolutely despicable'
The actor said the Republican candidate seemed like 'someone I just detested'
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Your support makes all the difference.Seth Rogen has expanded on his criticism of Republican candidate Ben Carson, after tweeting “F*** you” to the politician's Twitter account earlier this month.
The actor criticised the former neurosurgeon's comments defending gun ownership including suggestions that the Holocaust may have been prevented if Jewish people had guns at the time, and that if he was in the college during the Oregon shootings he wouldn’t “just stand there and let them shoot [me]”.
Speaking to the Daily Beast, Rogen, 33, said it wasn’t just references to the Holocaust which angered him.
“To me, it wasn’t just about the Holocaust thing. It was about the [Oregon] shooting and how he said that people shouldn’t just stand there and let themselves get shot, and that the correct thing to do if someone has a gun in your back is to point them at someone else and have them go rob that person.”
“I mean, I just read a lot of the stuff that guy was saying and he seemed like someone that I just detested. At face value, what he’s said is absolutely despicable. That guy is totally f*****g bonkers.”
Dr Carson was widely criticised after saying: “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.”
Rogen, who is Jewish, was reportedly ‘disgusted’ when saying Carson “implied that if their [right-wing] politics were applied to the Holocaust that Jews wouldn’t have been killed.”
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