October 26, 2015 02:48 PM UTC

Ben Carson Might Shank Somebody Pretty Soon

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• by: Colorado Pols

According to a new poll, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is now leading the Republican Presidential field in Iowa, the first state that will have to start making real decisions about the baker’s dozen-worth of GOP candidates.

Carson’s jump in the polls prompted famous rich person Donald Trump to bash his opponent for being “low energy” (which is apparently Trump’s most favored criticism of other candidates). Carson appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” and he countered Trump’s “low energy” claims by telling host Chuck Todd that he “has plenty of energy” before alluding to a weird scary incident in his past. “There was a time when I was very volatile,” said Carson.

What is Carson talking about here? Gawker kindly provides the reference from an interview last summer in The Daily Caller:

I had real anger issues. I would just fly off the handle and really become quite irrational and try to hurt people with baseball bats, hammers, whatever. In this particular case, I happened to have a large camping knife. And, you know, one of my friends angered me. And I just lunged at his abdomen with the knife. Probably would have seriously injured or killed him, but he happened to have on a large metal belt buckle under his clothing, upon which the blade broke. [Pols emphasis]

And, of course, he fled in terror. But I was more horrified than he was, because I realized that I was trying to kill somebody over nothing — and that I would never realize my dreams of becoming a physician. And I would end up in jail, reform school, or the grave. And I just locked myself in the bathroom and started praying…

WTF? This guy has a real chance of becoming the next President of the United States (we didn’t say he had a “good” chance, but he’s on the doorstep). Here’s how Carson elaborated on that story, from The Daily Caller’s Matt K. Lewis:

When I noted that his life could have turned out dramatically different — that he could have ended up in jail instead of becoming a doctor who helped people, Carson noted: “It’s very ironic. What could have ended a life for me, ended up being what gave life to thousands…a scalpel.”

Wow, that is ironic. Carson almost murdered someone with a knife, but instead became a surgeon! [cue nervous laughter]

…wait, that’s not irony. That’s completely insane.