Trump stirs controversy with remarks on gun rights

August 10, 2016 02:51

Republican Donald Trump suggested in a speech on Tuesday that gun rights activists could stop his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal justices to the Supreme Court, stirring another round of backlash during a week his US presidential campaign had hoped to steer clear of controversy.

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks," Trump said at a rally at the University of North Carolina. "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I dont know," he continued. The US Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees a right to bear firearms.

Clinton's campaign called the comments "dangerous".

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

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