Posted on 12/01/2021 2:20:14 PM PST by BAW
Alec Baldwin alleged that he did not pull the trigger on the gun that fired resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in a preview for an upcoming televised interview on Thursday night.
It was announced on Wednesday that Baldwin will sit down for his first formal interview about the fatal shooting that took place on the set of the indie-Western film "Rust." In a preview for the tell-all, Baldwin addresses the fact that he was holding a gun that was somehow loaded with a live bullet that should not have been on the set at all, let alone in an actor’s hand.
During the preview, which is heavily edited for the purpose of teasing the larger interview that’s set to air Thursday evening, an emotional Baldwin states unequivocally that he did not pull the trigger.
"The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger," Baldwin told George Stephanopoulos.
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Ok Alec you didn't "pull" the trigger, but did you squeeze the trigger?
Just like the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive
That is what Baldwin and other lefties have been insinuating and implying all along. The gun just fired itself out of malice when it was in Baldwin’s hand.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I know what he means; my toaster regularly goes on a rampage. I’d throw it out, but I’m afraid of the backlash.
Exactly. If this were true, wouldn’t he have said it from the beginning as in:” I don’t know what happened,I never fired the gun.”
Wasn’t there a scene in “Team America: World Police” where Susan Sarandon nearly “acts” her way out of trouble?
Baldwin is pretty much the poster boy for going off half-cocked.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QQOWp3tLb2s
Single action historically accurate revolvers can go off half cocked. That is where the term going off half cocked comes from. With a single action revolver that is made in the original colt design or copy of it there is no foreign pin trigger actuated drop block internal safety that advancement came decades later specifically to prevent a single action from going off half cocked. If this was a history piece or one that was made to that standard without the modern pin block you could cock the hammer back to between half cock hold notch and fully hammer down if released from that point there can and usually is enough hammer velocity when it strikes the firing pin to discharge a round. It is IMPERATIVE that with a historically accurate revolver you always clock past at least half cock before letting go of the hammer. This discharge risk is also why oldtimers would carry a six shot revolver with only five rounds in it with the hammer resting down on the empty chamber since while on horse back of a branch or bush brushed your left and kicked the hammer back but let it go before it was past half cocked the gun would discharge and shoot down your leg not present on the trail for sure.
Only modern revolvers have the firing pin block from half cocked. Only when the trigger is fully depressed is the pin block rotated to the position to allow the hammer energy to reach the primer. 1865 colt design do not have this more modern safety that was added specifically to stop a half cock discharge.
Snuffie didn’t ask Baldwin if he knew what a trigger was, so at least he has plausible deniability . . .
I bet his balls are getting really sweddey now
He cried during the interview. Every actor knows how to do this. There is absolutely no reason for him to cry except for show.
I’m glad you brought that up because I was just thinking about it. Alec said “I did not pull the trigger” and I made my post, then realized it is possible for him to have dropped the hammer ‘half cocked’ as you described, which could/would have fired the round without him touching the trigger.
The actor, John Schneider, continues to impress me with his knowledge on the matter of Hollywood and safety protocols where guns are involved. I caught some of his podcasts on YouTube.
Alec Baldwin, on the other hand, is doing exactly what any narcissist would do, he’s playing the victim. What a sick, sick individual. His tears & weeping, and the false empathy he displays for the director on Rust and the family of Helena Hutchins turn my stomach. Narcissists don’t feel empathy. And his tears weren’t for not for anyone other than himself and his troubles.
If he were an experienced shooter, I’d have expected to be familiar with just how light the trigger on a single-action revolver can be, but I don’t know how experienced a shooter he is.
If he were to tell me that he didn’t intentionally pull the trigger, and that the gun fired with as light a pull as he used was a surprise to him, I’d believe him.
But I don’t see that as providing an excuse, it’s simply adding additional layers of negligence.
Depends on what the meaning of “pull” is, apparently.
People don’t shoot people. Guns shoot people.
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