Pence's comments came after Trump, speaking during a rally in Miami said, Clinton "wants to destroy your Second Amendment." | AP Photo Pence says Trump wasn't calling for violence against Clinton

When Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton's secret service detail should disarm, he was making a point about her position on the Second Amendment, according to Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Pence, speaking Sunday in an interview with Martha Raddatz on ABC's "This Week," said that his running mate and the Republican nominee for president wasn't at all calling for violence against the Democratic nominee for president.


"I think what Donald Trump was saying is if Hillary Clinton didn't have all that security — she'd probably be a whole lot more supportive of the Second Amendment," Pence said.

Raddatz then pointed out that Trump also said in his statement: "Let's see what happens to her." But Pence said that wasn't any kind of call for violence.

"That's absolute nonsense. His comment was that if she didn't have all that security, she'd change her attitude about the right to keep and bear arms. And I'll bet that's probably true. But, you know, the — the truth of the matter is, with — it really is remarkable," Pence said.

Pence's comments came after Trump, speaking during a rally in Miami said, Clinton "wants to destroy your Second Amendment."

"I think what we should do is she goes around with armed bodyguards, like you have never seen before. I think that her bodyguards should disarm, right? Right? Think they should disarm. Immediately, what do you think? Yes? Yes. Yeah. Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns. Let’s see what happens to her," Trump said.

The Clinton campaign quickly denounced the statement.

"Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, has a pattern of inciting people to violence. Whether this is done to provoke protesters at a rally or casually or even as a joke, it is an unacceptable quality in anyone seeking the job of Commander in Chief," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. "This kind of talk should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate, just like it should be out of bounds for a presidential candidate to peddle a conspiracy theory about the President of the United States for five years. But we've seen again and again that no amount of failed resets can change who Donald Trump is. He is unfit to be President and it is time Republican leaders stand up to denounce this disturbing behavior in their nominee."