It’s truly unfortunate what happened to Donald Trump Tuesday. To have one’s words all twisted and misconstrued—it’s rather unfair. First, here’s what the Republican nominee said: “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick … and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Trump said “I don’t know.” If I’m hearing him right (and maybe I’m not!), he’s saying he doesn’t know if assassination is the way to go or not. Also the phrase “maybe there is” is left unfinished. “Maybe there is a better way than having to assassinate her” might have been the whole thought, but again, we just don’t know. So we shouldn’t jump to conclusions.