Republican presidential candidate and successful neurosurgeon Ben Carson:

“As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers. And, of course, many people know the story when I was 14 and I tried to stab someone.”

The complete lack of self-reflection regarding zero-tolerance policing by conservatives is astonishing. Perhaps predictable, but astonishing nonetheless. Do they believe their current presidential front-runner, not to mention the country, would have been better served with a harsh jail sentence–and all of the lost opportunities that stem from that sentence?

The mind, it boggles.