Senator rips Trump: 'Blood will be on your hands' if Clinton is killed

Senator Chris Murphy lashed out at Donald Trump on Saturday over the comments the GOP nominee for president made late Friday in which he suggested that Hillary Clinton's bodyguards should "disarm" themselves and "see what happens."

Murphy tweeted Saturday that the comments were tantamount to suggesting someone try to shoot and kill the Democratic nominee.

"Hey @realDonaldTrump, if you keep suggesting your supporters kill @HillaryClinton, someone will listen. The blood will be on your hands," he tweeted.

Murphy, who represents Connecticut where the Newtown elementary school massacre occurred, has been an ardent supporter of gun control legislation and of Clinton's.

"I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons," he said. "Take their guns away. She doesn't want guns ... let's see what happens to her," Trump said Friday at a rally.

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"It'd be very dangerous," he added.

Trump has received criticism in the past for making similar comments. Earlier this summer he talked about the possibility that "Second Amendment supporters" might take action against Clinton over her possible Supreme Court nominee.

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"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know," he said at a rally in August.

Trump later clarified to say he intended the comments to mean Second Amendment advocates should use political power, rather than guns.

The Clinton campaign reacted to the more recent statement as well, saying it made Trump unfit to be president.