From the hard hitting AP story:

“I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said. “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.”

Now this is cause for concern because if Baldwin, who is suspected in the accidental shooting death of the director of his new film "Rust" and wounding of another, did not in fact pull the trigger, we would have to assume some outlandish things.

One is that the gun was pointed at the persons who were shot and then just went off. That is the explanation most gun grabbers would use. Why? Well, if you blame the gun, and not the vocally anti-gun actor handling it, you absolve the activist while placing further damnation on that invention of modern hell on earth, the gun. You see if Baldwin was merely pointing the weapon, as called for in the script, and it "goes off" it's not his fault. In actuality he is a victim as well, a victim of an always potential weapon of destruction whether fired by a person, or just sitting there inanimately.

If we don't assume that, then we must assume that it was not Baldwin who shot his co-workers but perhaps someone else. It may be the same person lurking on the golf courses of Florida and Las Vegas who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

If we don't assume either of those, then we have to assume that Baldwin is not remembering things correctly or lying. But what about misfire, the devil's advocate/attorney asks?

It is reported that the gun Baldwin was handling on the set was a period correct F.LLI Pietta Long Colt 45 Revolver. This firearm is a single-action revolver. That means you must first cock the hammer and then fire the weapon by pulling the trigger. This makes a "misfire" nearly impossible.

Furthermore what the gun-ignorant call a "misfire" is not accurate. A misfire is when you pull the trigger and the gun powder is not ignited. The projectile is a dud. Gun grabbers like to believe guns can just spontaneously "go off" as if possessed by Satan himself.

So no matter how Baldwin was involved in this shooting, it wasn't likely a mechanical malfunction nor was it someone else who shot those individuals.

So what likely happened is that Baldwin, who being a well-known Hollywood progressive probably knows as much about firearms as your typical anti-gun advocate, mishandled the firearm. He must have indeed pulled the trigger. The only other logical possibility is that the gun was cocked, and then the hammer spontaneously released as he was handling it. Either way, that counts as mishandling it and therefore makes the person culpable.

Baldwin likely violated the primary gun safety rules that one must obey when handling firearms:

1. Don't handle a gun if you don't know what is in it. In fact, outside of a movie set, you should never point any gun, loaded or unloaded, at anyone ever unless you are trying to kill them.
2. Don't do like the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecutor did and put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot.


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