"I didn't pull the trigger!", with equal douche and lying journalist Stephanopoulos giving him a forum to try and dodge any responsibility.
I could give no better rundown of why this is bullshit than what Tam did:
I could be convinced that you legitimately believe that you did not pull the trigger. Our brains... our egos... will tell us some amazing lies in order to protect our id. Even though I think you're a huge asshole, on some basic human to human level, I feel bad for you, because this is obviously a horrible experience.
But guns, and most specifically Colt Single Action Armies and their clones, do not work that way.
If it were some striker-fired semiauto, we could concoct some bizarre and cosmically unlikely hypothetical whereby the sear broke at the same time as the aliens from planet Zoltar beamed the firing pin safety out of the gun, but not on that smokewagon you were holding. You had to at least manually cock the hammer on that replica hogleg while pointing it at someone.
I have to add: it's entirely possible he's really mentally off due to this, it'd be traumatic as hell. It's this "It wasn't my fault because-" crap that pisses me off. Every time he's done some scuzzy thing he's had either some excuse or some "It was necessary/called for" reason for doing it. I'm afraid I'm largely out of sympathy with him. Especially now.
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Baldwin is lying. He's a leftist. Leftists lie. It's WHAT THEY DO. Lying is congenital for them.
I had a ND once, with a bolt action shotgun. I pulled up to shoot at a running rabbit, decided it was too far away, and put the safety back on. Holding my shotgun butt on my thigh, with the barrel pointed skyward, until my buddy came up to me, I heard a bang! and felt a thump on my side, thought that my friend had shot me in the side. Then it dawned on me that my own shotgun had fired. Holy crap it scared the hell out of me.
As I was processing what had happened, it turned out that I pulled up to shoot the rabbit, took it off safe, touched the trigger, then put it back on safe. Holding the gun on my hip, I mindlessly had once again touched the trigger while the safety must have not completely been pushed into place. When I touched the trigger, and I mean just touched it, not pulled it, but touched it, the gun fired. Fortunately, I was pointing it in a safe direction, skyward, away from any person, but damn, did it scare both of us, and never again did that even come close to happening again.
Later on, I gave the gun to my son, who found a safety bulletin, from the factory, being a gun from the 1950's that warned of just such a danger. He gave it back to me, being unwilling to keep a gun like that. And I didn't blame him.
As the gun had come from my dad, and it was one of the only guns that I had from him, my brother asked me to pass it down to his grandson. Which I did, after a very explicit safety lesson/lecture about the danger inherent with that particular gun. And a suggestion to take it to a competent gunsmith to have it gone through and fixed, with whatever part needed to be redone or replaced. I doubt that it could be replaced, and probably had to be remade. But I really tried to encourage him to take it to a gunsmith and get it redone. Of course, I doubt that he would spend the hundred bucks or so that it might take to get it fixed. And it is a damn shame, to save a few dollars, and have a gun worth maybe that hundred bucks, with an unsafe action.
The bitch of it is, I bought a 12 gauge pump action home defense shotgun for about 120$, with a straight open choke, that I took out white tail hunting last year, and killed the first deer in over 30 years, with a 1 oz slug, at over 50 yards, knocking it off it's feet with one shot. No scope, no fancy sights, just a plain jane shotgun. I have always been impressed with what a 12 gauge 2.75" shotgun can do. The 1 oz shell was right on at 50 yards, and was supposed to be the same at 100 yards. Here in Michigan, I have killed most all of my deer with slugs, or 00 Buckshot. I killed only one with a rifle, my dad's 30/40 krag, which I gave to my son who lives in Kentucky. He is a collector of military guns, and he reloads for it.
I do feel bad for Alec Baldwin in the fact that I would anyone who accidently shoots a friend, and kills them. He now must live with that fact. But now that he is trying to put spin on it, to try and remain out of jail, he can get fucked, and spend his life in jail. What about the poor woman's family? Baldwin is shitting on her memory by this BS interview. He came out with a story directly afterward, saying that since it was an ongoing investigation, he could not say anything. It is still an ongoing investigation, yet he is willing to sit down with George Stephanopolis to get ahead of the story. Fuck him and I am sorry for the woman in charge of the guns on set, but she was about the worst example of a set armorer that I could imagine. I could have done a better job. I would have had locked down every single gun, with the only key, and had complete autonomy as far as the weapons on set, and if not, I would have shut down production. If I didn't have that power to shutdown production, I would have walked. End of story. And I am just a long time shooter and student of guns and reader of some damn smart gun writers and trainers, who have done similar jobs on other sets. Safety on set is always the first order of business, with safety briefings first thing and again as needed.
Could he have fanned the hammer?
The video should show just what happened, if we ever get to see it.
With Baldwin, he's been such an arrogant, violent asshole so many times I have a hard time being sympathetic, or trusting of anything he says.
PigPen, that's some story
Doesn't fanning the hammer require the trigger to be pulled?
Yeah, you hold the trigger back while fanning the hammer
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