On the campaign trail today, Republican contender Ben Carson made a strange analogy when trying to explain the current move to restrict Syrian refugees from coming into America.

“If there’s a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog,” Carson said. “And you’re probably going to put your children out of the way.”

He then theorized it’s possible to “not hate all dogs,” but want to try to deal with the rabid one.

“By the same token, we have to have in place screening mechanisms that allow us to determine who the mad dogs are, quite frankly,” he added, according to Politico.

“Who are the people who wanna come in here and hurt us and wanna destroy us? Until we know how to do that, just like it would be foolish to put your child out in the neighborhood knowing that that was going on, it’s foolish for us to accept people if we cannot have the appropriate type of screening.”