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US 2016 Presidential Elections: Trump Ignites Firestorm with Remarks on Gun Rights, Clinton

US 2016 Presidential Elections: Trump Ignites Firestorm with Remarks on Gun Rights, Clinton
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that gun rights activists could act to stop his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices, igniting yet another firestorm of criticism just as he sought to steer clear of controversy.


US 2016 Presidential Elections: Trump Ignites Firestorm with Remarks on Gun Rights, Clinton
"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks," Trump said at a rally. "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," he continued. The US Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees a right to bear firearms.

Until Trump made the remark, he had been trying to rally Republican voters behind him and against Clinton, who is leading in national opinion polls in the race for the Nov. 8 election.

Clinton's campaign called the remark "dangerous."

"A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way," it said.

When asked to clarify what Trump meant, his campaign said he was referring to getting supporters of the Second Amendment to rally votes for Trump in the election.

"It's called the power of unification - 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power," the Trump campaign statement added.

Introducing Trump at a later rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani accused the news media of taking the remark out of context to help Clinton, a former US secretary of state, get elected.

The US Secret Service, which provides security details for both Trump and Clinton and rarely comments on political matters, said when asked for a response to Trump: "The Secret Service is aware of the comment."

By day's end, Trump was drawing criticism on several fronts, another chapter in a campaign marked by bitterness and partisanship.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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