What do you do when your party's nominee suggests "Second Amendment people" might be the only people who can stop Hillary Clinton from appointing Supreme Court justices? Nothing apparently. That's what we've heard from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
Don’t worry, says Team Trump, he doesn’t really want it to happen, he’s just dreaming up possibility:
Mike Pence denied it:
Susan Collins, not voting for Trump, chose to defend his crazy:
And you know your party is off its rocker when Jeff Sessions says the most reasonable thing, even if Trump clearly wasn't joking:
Meanwhile, here's some better responses from around the web, starting with our favorite from Elizabeth Warren:
Hillary had something to say herself:
Finally, this pretty much captures the essence of things: