He said what he said. If he objects that much to people drawing reasonable inferences from what he said, maybe he shouldn’t have said it in the first place.
I saw him on TV after Sandy Hook making the big push for his “SAFE Act”. He was screaming like an insane person. Really—it was the closest I’ve seen someone come to Joseph Goebbels when he denounced the Jews in Nazi Germany. It actually disturbed me quite a bit.