Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was under fire Wednesday for a remark which is being interpreted by his critics as implying that someone ought to shoot his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. 
Speaking at a rally in support of gun rights in North Carolina, Trump said that if Clinton became president she would appoint judges to the US Supreme Court that could overturn the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms. 
"Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump said. "By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know". 
By "Second Amendment people" doing something, Trump was referring to gun rights advocates. 
Robby Mook, Clinton's campaign manager, said in a statement: "This is simple -- what Trump is saying is dangerous. A person seeking to the be president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way," he said. 
But Jason Miller, Trump's senior communications adviser, said Trump was only referring to gun rights advocates coming out to vote for him and defeating Clinton. 
"It's called the power of unification -- 2nd Amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power," Miller said. "And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won't be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump". 
That did not satisfy many Democrats. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who supports limiting the right to own guns in the wake of many mass shootings in the US, said in a Tweet: "Don't treat this as a political misstep. It's an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy and crisis". 

Source ; QNA