I'm sure Alex is happy his weapon was "first checked by a weapons safety professional."
Not mentioned is there was a photographer there Binger was POSING FOR. The entire thing was a photo op - this a couple weeks after we saw on a movie set a ‘safe gun’ kill one person and wound a second.
Leave it to NewsSchmuck to defend the indefensible...
Ya. The “experts” are idiots!
Doesn’t matter....he had his finger on the trigger. Only takes a nano second to redirect the weapon.
Doesn’t matter. You NEVER handle a weapon in that manner. The da needs to go. He should move on to ambulance chasing.
Alec Baldwin did the same thing as Binger
Even if Binger did not point it at anyone in the room, he did not know who was on the other side of the walls.
This was horrible gun safety no matter what anyone says.
“Both Binger and—later—defense attorney Mark Richards stated that it was first checked by a weapons safety professional.”
Right. Sounds a little ‘Rust’y to me.
I can never tell if liberals are really this stupid or they purposely use over the top histrionics to exploit the emotionally weak?
Its a real pity that the defense was not able to closely question senior police officials. Who gave the order and why was there no police presence to control the riot? Why couldn’t Rittenhouse find a police officer when he was being hounded and wanted to surrender? Official negligence and dereliction of duty has always been at the core of this case.
I despise this prosecutor as much as anyone, but the photo show that there is no magazine in the weapon. If the chamber was checked and then the weapon was pointed away from the jury for a demonstration, that's perfectly safe.
Here come the Fact Wreckers, who simply deny that which is clearly observable.
That said, the ADA was negligent in how he handled the firearm. After all, to err is human. We have rules upon rules so that the error cascade prevents catastrophe. Unlike what happened on the Rust shoot. (Pun intended.)
No surprise that newsweek, a failed leftist rag, defends the dangerous action of the DA but condemns Rittenhouse.
The man acted irresponsibly. If he had aimed it at me, I would have demanded he be prosecuted, and then sued him. Obviously the police would not have arrested him as they should have.
he did it to threaten the jury who are fully aware of the hundreds of death threats being made against them and their families.
He’s as stupid as he looks....dangerously stupid.
Violated at least 3 safety rules.
He had no business even touching that rifle as he is incompetent and untrained to handle a firearm because he didn’t even know how to safety check/clear the firearm himself.
He didn’t treat it as if it was loaded.
He had his finger ON the trigger.
He pointed AT other human beings in a court of law.
The stupid SOB ought to be disbarred.
I think he was doing it for drama, showing the jury what it must have felt like when Rittenhouse pointed the gun at the three Kenosha heroes.
That doesn't matter! When you pick up a gun ... IT IS LOADED. PERIOD. Until you determine otherwise.
Has anyone noticed that the article was published by NEWSWEAK and not NEWSWEEK?
Yes, it was a direct threat.
Loaded, not loaded, checked by others or not, this was a clown-move to intimidate the jury - period. The DA needs to attend an NRA gun safety class at the barest of minimum, and needs a refresher in self-defense, Wisconsin gun laws, the 5th Amendment, and "law". He skipped the class about law in law school.
He needs to be under the scrutiny of the Wisconsin Bar Association based on his prosecutorial misadventures.