Posted on 11/13/2022 8:38:54 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Hollywood is funny sometimes though. Even though you might think Baldwin could still get dramatic roles not involving guns, he’s already well past his prime and in the era that a lot of ex-leading men are stuck doing “straight to streaming” lower budget movies that tend to be action movies. Also, there are a few examples of people in Hollywood who committed manslaughter and got an unofficial blacklisting where they didn’t work much for the next 10-20 years... Matthew Broderick and Roger Avary come to mind.
His name cannot be cleared. He had the responsibility for whatever came out of the barrel of the gun that he fired. He did not follow gun safety rules, so there is negligent homicide. His refusal to take responsibility should lead to a big judgement against him.
Yes, sir! You can rub and rub and rub and in the end you will have a tired arm and a stinking turd with no shine.
Oscar Wilde thought suing to clear his name was a good idea too, before the evidence presented by the defense resulted in his incarceration at hard labor.
I grew up in the country around guns, hunting from an early age then went into the Marine Corps. I still shoot thousands of rounds a year prairie dog hunting. Never in all my time around guns has it ever been thought that someone is not responsible for what happens with a gun in their control. That’s just the way it is, if you are handling a firearm you and you alone are responsible for what comes out the barrel. His claim that someone else is responsible because they handed him a loaded gun is ludicrous, it was his responsibility to check it and know its state at all times. It doesn’t matter if someone handed it to you loaded, once it’s in your hands it’s your responsibility. At the very minimum he’s guilty of negligent homicide or manslaughter. The fact that he wasn’t immediately arrested and hauled off in handcuffs shows that there are different rules for “them” and “us”. Any one of us here would have been charged, indicted, and tried without question.
He has ZERO chance of clearing his name.
The Double Standard is doing particularly well in modern America.
He sues? He ought to be in jail!
The most basic rule in gun safety is that you always assume that the gun is loaded. Baldwin failed. Baldwin was the person with the gun. Baldwin is the one who aimed the gun and pulled the trigger. Baldwin Is the one responsible for killing the victim.
There is no one to blame except himself, for the taking of an innocent life and the destruction of a young family.
democrats literally get away with murder.
“His name will forever be Mudd”
A reference to the late Judge William Mudd of California, no doubt.
“Judge Mudd, remembered for Westerfield trial, dies at 64”
By Greg Moran
March 23, 2009
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-bn23mudd-dies-64-2009mar23-story.html
“It was perhaps inevitable that the first line of an obituary for retired San Diego Superior Court Judge William Mudd would say he was the judge in the infamous trial of David Westerfield.” (Westerfield was tried and convicted of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.)
Mudd wouldn’t allow the jury to visit the van Dam home, especially not at night, where they would have seen how implausible - even ridiculous - the prosecution’s kidnapping theory was. But he did allow them to visit Westerfield’s motor home, which the prosecution had set up as a crime scene, even though we don’t know if it was a crime scene.
I hope Alec has the sense to sue the guy cocked the gun, aimed it, and pulled the trigger.
I noticed that, too.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd: The Man Who Helped J. Wilkes Booth Assassinate Lincoln
He’s already been Munsoned. No coming back from it.
"The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger"
There isn't enough money in the WORLD to take away the oppo to fry this f-----r under oath with his own words on cross.
"Yeah, you know, you f@g, you want to make something of it?"
"You also convicted of Assaulting Marcus Santos in New York, correct?"
"Hey, you know what, I gotta piece right here. You want to see it?"
"This was, in fact, your second conviction for assaulting a photographer, the first time 1995 in LA. We would like to call Ms. Basinger to the stand."
"What, what, WHAT? That #$^&?"
"Your honor, let the record show that Mr. Baldwin is brandishing the .45 Colt revolver with which he murdered Ms. Hutchins."
To-wit, the half-wit twit cross-complains:
"This tragedy occurred on a movie set — not a gun range, not a battlefield, not a location where even a remote possibility should exist that a gun would contain live ammunition," the lawsuit said.Baldwin has maintained he was told the gun was safe and that he did not pull the trigger. But a recent FBI forensic report found the weapon could not have fired unless the trigger was pulled."
You’ve got a script for a Hollywood courtroom drama movie there, Stan!
I can’t speak to the exact model pistol that he was handling, but I’ve found that a badly fatigued or broken leaf-spring on the back of the hand will allow me to cock a pistol when it is held vertically, or lower, but not if held above vertical. If cocked while above vertical, the trigger sear will not engage, and the hammer drops, without the half-cock sear engaging. The trigger needn’t be pulled. I haven’t seen a report on the confiyion of ghe pistol in wuestion.
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