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Baldwin to ABC's Stephanopoulos about shooting: 'I didn't pull the trigger'
AP ^ | Dec. 1, 2021 | AP

Posted on 12/01/2021 5:00:51 PM PST by PROCON

NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview airing Thursday that he did not pull the trigger on a prop gun he was holding on a New Mexico film set when it went off, killing a cinematographer.

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

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To: PROCON

His profession is acting. Here, he is acting innocent.


21 posted on 12/01/2021 5:16:41 PM PST by glorgau
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To: EEGator

Probably. But Bruce also got off scot free.


22 posted on 12/01/2021 5:19:02 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: PROCON
"I didn't inhale!"
23 posted on 12/01/2021 5:19:15 PM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL is a )
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To: PROCON

Alec, you’re not that good of an actor to pull this whopper off.


24 posted on 12/01/2021 5:19:44 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

A standard unmodified double-action revolver has a trigger pull of 10+ pounds. This is not something that fires by accident.


25 posted on 12/01/2021 5:20:37 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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To: Cobra64
That’s alright. 90% of the population doesn’t know the difference between a bullet and a cartridge… difference between a clip and a magazine… and every handgun is a Glock. A shot from an .223 AR15 will blow a hole in your chest the size of a watermelon. The clueless is incredible.


I still don't know what a prop gun is. It is a gun, right? Why doesn't the media report it as a gun that was to be used as a prop? The only way I would ever handle a real gun as a prop, is if I cleared it myself. I would never trust another human to check it for me.
26 posted on 12/01/2021 5:21:02 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: PROCON

Guns kill people,
pencils misspell words,
cars drive drunk,
& spoons make you fat.


27 posted on 12/01/2021 5:22:25 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: glorgau
I think he's saying this because the burden of proof relies on others.

Is there a video of it? No.

Witnesses? His word against theirs.

He's taking this stance because he knows he's guilty but so far, no one can prove it.

28 posted on 12/01/2021 5:23:40 PM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: PROCON

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

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Ah, so it’s to be an insanity defense!

~Easy


29 posted on 12/01/2021 5:25:25 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG.)
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To: PROCON

Baldwin is such a cartoon. I think this gun requires the hammer to be pulled back first before it can fire a bullet.


30 posted on 12/01/2021 5:27:10 PM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: PROCON

Wow. Good luck with this defense.......

Reminds me of a story about a guy who accidentally shot his wife. Twice.


31 posted on 12/01/2021 5:30:07 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: PROCON

Hey Alec, claim you are a patsy like Oswald and that you never had sex with that pistol, nicknamed Miss Lewinsky and that 81 million fans following you also believe your story!


32 posted on 12/01/2021 5:32:32 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (. Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: PROCON

Alec Baldwin has just telegraphed the disgusting farce that’s coming.

Baldwin’s defense will be that the gun went off spontaneously, either because of a malfunction or tampering — he doesn’t know which and that’s the police’s job to figure out. His lawyer will argue that the prosecution has to prove that couldn’t possibly have happened. A jury of imbeciles will fall for the idea that this creates reasonable doubt. Baldwin will sue the manufacturer, importer, distributor, and retailer, and anyone who ever touched the revolver.

He’s a Democrat from bark to core.


33 posted on 12/01/2021 5:33:27 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: PROCON

And Bill Clinton didn’t inhale.


34 posted on 12/01/2021 5:33:31 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: Gahanna Bob

Got to wonder if the story will be he placed the the weapon on the table and it loaded itself, the wind pointed it at people, pulled back the hammer and gave the the trigger a pull.

In a single-action revolver, the hammer is manually cocked, usually with the thumb of the firing or supporting hand. This action advances the cylinder to the next round and locks the cylinder in place with the chamber aligned with the barrel. The trigger, when pulled, releases the hammer, which fires the round in the chamber. To fire again, the hammer must be manually cocked again. This is called “single-action” because the trigger only performs a single action, of releasing the hammer. Because only a single action is performed and trigger pull is lightened, firing a revolver in this way allows most shooters to achieve greater accuracy.


35 posted on 12/01/2021 5:37:44 PM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: PROCON

What a liar.


36 posted on 12/01/2021 5:47:08 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

why would they have a real gun on a movie set?? why would they have a real bullet on set?


37 posted on 12/01/2021 5:55:12 PM PST by Karoo
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To: PROCON

bullet not supposed to be on set: Check

bullet not supposed to be in gun: Check

points gun at director without direction: Check

gun just happens to go off all by itself: SORRY, that’s a coincidence too far...


38 posted on 12/01/2021 6:02:24 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chewbarkah; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; infool7; All

It was caused by the excessive Heat that day. That one Chamber was in the Direct Sunlight and it overheated the round and made it go BANG !!!!!!


39 posted on 12/01/2021 6:02:43 PM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: PROCON

Well then you did it right. You squeezed the trigger to stay on target.


40 posted on 12/01/2021 6:03:07 PM PST by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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