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Patti Davis, daughter of shot president Ronald Reagan, slams Donald Trump

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The daughter of the late US president Ronald Reagan has a message for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump: "Words matter."

Patti Davis responded to Trump's suggestion on Tuesday that "Second Amendment people" could maybe find a way to stop Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she is elected.

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Ronald Reagan's daughter slams Donald Trump

Patti Davis, daughter of the late US president Ronald Reagan, has condemned Donald Trump for inciting violence.

Davis says on Facebook that, while Trump's comments were heard by "sane and decent people", they were also heard by someone "locked in his own dark fantasies", who "sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world".

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Davis notes that her father, a Republican, "was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie".

John Hinckley said he was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, who acted in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, when he tried to assassinate Reagan in 1981.

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A judge ruled last month that Hinckley could be released from the psychiatric hospital where he has been sentenced to live for decades.

Davis is the daughter of Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan.

Patti Davis, daughter of late US president Ronald Reagan, in 2004.
Patti Davis, daughter of late US president Ronald Reagan, in 2004. Photo: AP

Her response is one of many who condemned remarks in which Trump appeared to advocate shooting Clinton.

Trump was speaking at a rally in North Carolina on August 9 about the next president's power to appoint Supreme Court justices .

Patti Davis speaks during the funeral service for her mother.
Patti Davis speaks during the funeral service for her mother. Photo: AP

"Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," he said.

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is."

President Ronals Reagan waves, then looks up before being shoved into the presidential limousine by Secret Service ...
President Ronals Reagan waves, then looks up before being shoved into the presidential limousine by Secret Service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981.  Photo: AP

The extraordinary comment was widely seen as a call for violence against a Clinton administration or even an assassination threat.

Trump strongly denied these claims, saying the media was biased.

"Give me break," he said in a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity.

​Hannity had asked Trump to respond to the media "spinning" the remarks about Clinton, which Hannity said "obviously" referred to the power of Second Amendment supporters to stop Clinton by voting against her.

The Second Amendment of the American constitution protects the right to bear arms.

Trump replied: "Well, I just heard about that, and it was amazing because nobody in that room thought anything other than what you just said.

"This is a political movement. This is a strong, powerful movement, the Second Amendment … there can be no other interpretation."

AP with Fairfax Media

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