Good day all. Alec Baldwin, through his own neglect and carelessness, accidentally shot and killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of a western movie he was making. The investigation into what and how all this happened continues.
However, being the true narcissistic leftist that he is, Baldwin refuses to accept any responsibility for what happened, and he is blaming the gun for the incident. Here are the details from Neon Nettle:
Hollywood star Alec Baldwin has stated that he feels no guilt for shooting and killing Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie “Rust,” arguing that someone else is responsible for what happened, not him.
The gun used by Baldwin is a reproduction of the famous Colt .45 Single Action Army, which is pretty much the standard pistol used in westerns. These pistols require you to cock the hammer and then pull the trigger. In the “Olden days” when the original Colt SAA’s were made, it was standard to load only 5 rounds and keep the hammer on an empty chamber. The guns could go off if the hammer was struck hard enough.
Modern versions, at least some of them, have a system in place that prevents this from happening. I don’t know if the reproduction Baldwin used had this, however, for the purposes of this discussion, it doesn’t matter. The hammer was not struck. The only way for that gun to go off, aside from the live round in the chamber, was to cock the gun and pull the trigger, or, pull the trigger and then “Fan” the hammer.
Fanning the hammer means to pull it back, usually with the palm of one hand, while holding the trigger back and letting the hammer fall onto the chamber. Fanning the gun looks cool in movies, but in real life is a great way to not hit what you’re aiming at.
Speaking in a new interview with ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos, actor Baldwin, who produced and starred in Rust, also attacked Donald Trump and George Clooney after they criticized him for the tragedy.
From what I’ve been reading, Clooney basically blasted Baldwin for ignoring all the basic safety rules that are drilled into actors and actresses who handle firearms, real or props, during the course of a project. One thing drilled into them is never point a gun at anyone and to confirm the load status. (Empty or blanks of the scene calls for shooting)
Because Baldwin appears to have ignored the Four Rules of Gun Safety, he was asked if he felt guilty for what happened.
Asked if he felt any guilt for the shooting, Baldwin replied: “No. No. “I feel that someone is responsible for what happened, and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.” “I mean, honest to God, if I felt that I was responsible, I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible. And I don’t say that lightly.”
So it was the gun’s fault that it went off and killed that innocent mother, not the idiot holding it and screwing around with it? Sure, and I have a long list of promises made by Dementia Joe Biden that you know he is working hard to keep. Pull the other finger, it has a bell on it.
When pressed by ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos about how “it wasn’t in the script for the trigger to be pulled,” Baldwin responded by claiming, “Well, the trigger wasn’t pulled.
“I didn’t pull the trigger.”
“I cock the gun. I go, ‘Can you see that? Can you see that? Can you see that?’” Baldwin said.
“And then I let go of the hammer of the gun, and the gun goes off. I let go of the hammer of the gun, the gun goes off.”
“So you never pulled the trigger?” Stephanopoulos pressed.
“No, no, no, no,” Baldwin claimed.
“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.”
Obviously, Baldwin is lying. The proof? There is a dead woman who is still dead, and another person who was wounded. I don’t think the bullet ricocheted around the set and like a guided missile, homed in on the victims. This is why pretty much anyone with any experience with firearms is having issues with Baldwin’s remarks.
At first glance, this sounds far-fetched. It is exceedingly rare for a gun to fire without the trigger being depressed. Modern firearms, even replicas of antique guns, have safeties specifically designed to prevent them from firing without the trigger being pulled. It only really happens when the gun’s firing mechanism is damaged, or there is a significant design flaw. That’s why most gun owners and firearms safety trainers are highly skeptical of any claim a gun just “went off” absent user error.
The police have the pistol and know if this model had the modern safety systems in it. Even if it didn’t, Baldwin is still at fault for not personally verifying that the gun was not loaded with anything. He should have pointed it away from people, towards the ground and then opened the loading gate and rotated the cylinder, checking each chamber. If he had done that, he would have seen one was loaded and called the armorer over to take it back and recheck it.
He is also at fault for pointing it at the people when he was playing with it. Anyone who owns or handles a gun knows that you never point a gun at anything you aren’t prepared to put a hole in, and that when you fire a gun, you own that bullet until it stops, and you better know where it’s going to stop.
There is no question that Alec Baldwin had no intention of harming anyone, but he was grossly negligent in handling that gun. He may think that “Blaming the gun” will absolve him, but the fact that he didn’t personally check the gun, and handled it in a negligent manner puts the blame squarely at his feet. How the live round got into the gun is another matter and is currently being investigated.
There is currently a police officer on trial for a similar situation. She shot and killed a suspect thinking she had a taser in her hand, not her service weapon. There was no intent, but she is on trial now for manslaughter, and the whole thing was filmed. It’s up to the judge and jury, and while the suspect she killed was no saint, she has to be held responsible for her negligence. So does Alec Baldwin.
Baldwin went on to say he has been told by people “in the know” that it is “highly unlikely” he will face any criminal charges over the shooting.
If he doesn’t, then there isn’t any justice. The police officer currently on trial essentially did the same thing Baldwin did with the exception being she thought she had a taser. Kyle Rittenhouse who was forced to fire in defense of his life was just acquitted by a jury after a politically motivated prosecution. Baldwin is going to be sued into oblivion, but he needs to face a criminal court just like the officer and Rittenhouse. Regardless of what he believes, the odds are high he will be in court eventually. It would be nice if he were convicted and retired to a nice Arizona prison too.
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