“When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you had some people with guns, I was obviously talking about additional guards or employees,” Trump tweeted Monday morning, seeking to clarify and qualify his earlier comments.

The real estate mogul’s initial comments did not initially focus on arming additional security personnel.

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"If in that club, you had some people — not a lot of people, 'cause you don’t need a lot of people — but if you had somebody with a gun strapped onto their hip, somebody with a gun strapped onto their ankle and you had bullets going in the opposite direction, right at this animal who did this, you would have had a very, very different result, believe me, folks,” Trump said Saturday during a campaign rally in Phoenix.

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“[If] one of the people in the room happened to have [a gun] and goes ‘Boom! Boom!’ — you know what? That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks,” Trump said Friday in Texas.

An armed guard at Pulse nightclub on the night of the shooting did, in fact, exchange gunfire with the shooter.

Trump’s attempts to soften his claims come after the executive director of the NRA’s lobbying arm disavowed the suggestion that armed clubgoers would have guaranteed safety at Pulse nightclub.

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“No one thinks that people should go into a nightclub drinking and carrying firearms,” Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s lobbying arm, told ABC’s “This Week.” “That defies common sense. It also defies the law. That’s not what we’re talking about here.”

Those comments closely mirrored remarks by President Obama, a vocal critic of the NRA, who has accused Trump of loose talk on gun safety and terrorism.

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“The notion that the answer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense,” Obama said while paying his respects in Orlando on Thursday.

Trump has called in recent days for individuals on the terrorist watch list to be barred from purchasing firearms.

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On Sunday, Trump also expressed concern about restrictions on the Second Amendment, suggesting on several occasions that he believes many people on the terrorist watch list should not be on it. It was not clear how he would reconcile those differences.

“We have to make sure that people that are terrorists or have even an inclination toward terrorism,” Trump said. But, “you know, a lot of people are on the list that really maybe shouldn't be on the list. And, you know, their rights are being taken away. So I understand that."

He added that, in the case of Orlando, there was a failure by authorities to act decisively to prevent the massacre. “[T]he authorities didn't act. And I think it's very unusual. And I'm a big fan of the FBI, but they had a little bit of a bad day.”

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