Posted on 10/26/2021 10:22:15 AM PDT by VictimsRightsPro2a
The first rule of gun safety is you don’t point a gun a something unless you intend to shoot it. Even if you believe the gun is unloaded, you don’t point it directly at others.
Alec Baldwin didn’t follow basic gun safety when he accidentally shot his cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42. Anyone who has been to a shooting range would have that drilled into them. And Baldwin, an actor who has been in many movies using guns, must surely have had this explained to him many times.
Since the killing, numerous news stories have come out blaming others on the set for unsafe practices. Headlines read: “Armorer on Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ set once admitted to being ‘nervous’ about abilities,” “Alec Baldwin assistant director had history of unsafe practices, prop maker says,” “‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before fatal shooting,” or “Assistant Director Declared Gun Safe Before Alec Baldwin Fatally Fired It, Affidavit Says.”
But these are lame attempts to protect Baldwin from criminal charges. And that is true despite there being no doubt that Baldwin is genuinely sorry about this tragedy. Indeed, as news reports indicate, he was undoubtedly “inconsolable.” but that doesn’t help him either.
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... but Alec is different. /s
Liberals are incapable of learning. If they could they wouldn’t be liberals.
Rule 1 keeps the other rules from becoming irrelevant. The first rule of gun safety is Don't Ever Let The Government Take Away Your Guns.
No, the first rule of gun safety is “treat all guns as if they are loaded, at all times.”
Rule two is “never point the barrel at anything you are not willing to destroy.”
Rule three is “keep your finger off the trigger until you are on target and ready to fire.”
Rule four is “be sure of your target and what is behind it.”
Charge should be Involuntary Manslaughter.
When anyone hands a gun to you, immediately check to see if it is loaded or unloaded regardless of what they tell you.
The same for any gun you have stored.
There are several versions of the ‘rules’. NRA, Jeff Coopers, etc. But in general the first one or two rules always comes down to two related themes, treating every gun as if its loaded and muzzle control. This concept of keeping the gun pointed in the safe direction ensures if you violate all the other rules (finger off trigger, etc) and the gun goes off, at least no one gets hurt.
It is a single action pistol so the hammer has to be drawn back and cocked. When people fast-draw they are thumbing the hammer back. It may be that his thumb slipped on the way up. She was shot in the mid-section so that kind of goes along with that.
Even if true he is also negligent because he swept her with the barrel on the way to the target.
And you don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you are ready to shoot.
The gun did not accidentally discharge. Alec Baldwin accidentally (we presume) discharged the gun. Guns are objects. They don’t do things. They have things done to them like loading and checking and firing. Can the media please stop reporting on this like the damn gun has a mind and will of its own?
All this screaming on the right about Baldwin opens the door to “See! Even the right thinks guns are unsafe and should be banned!” In their hatred for Baldwin, they aren’t thinking ahead, just thinking, “Get Baldwin!”.
Here is my guess, He is an arrogant,stupid elite asshole who used the weapon to tease her and gain much needed attention and ended up killing her. So what? us elites can’t be held responsible FOR ANYTHING.
I once had a blue training Glock with a laser in it handed to me on a virtual range. One of the really cool parts of Citizen Police Academy.
I opened the action far enough to verify there was nothing live in there.
The cop running the simulator said “That’s the first time I’ve had someone do that.”
I replied “You just handed me an object shaped noticeably like a firearm, OF COURSE I’m going to verify it is safe!”
I really hope I was just the first CPA student to do that, and that at least some of our cops check.
Is that going to be the new standard? Nobody should ever point a gun at anyone else, even in a movie or TV show? And to be clear, that is a completely different question from what other safety precautions should be taken in those situations.
I am not taking Baldwin off the hook, but I am not ruling out deliberate sabotage either. You have a labor dispute going on. You have people who obviously don’t like the armorer or consider her competent. You have guns sitting on a cart unattended during a lunch break on the set and you have an earlier incident. Someone could well have tampered with the prop gun. That does not mean that others were not careless but it does mean this investigation needs to go pretty deep into everyone on the set that day.
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