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2021-12-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
'I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger': Alec Baldwin weeps as he denies firing gun loaded with 'a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property', during George Stephanopoulos interview
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

More from Yahoo, courtesy of Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589:
Reality clearly is not a realm he can live in any more after fatally shooting two people on the "Rust" movie set...
A tip for Citizen Baldwin. Get yourself a different lawyer.
Alec Baldwin is giving his first TV interview since the Rust shooting — and it's an emotional one.

The first preview for the ABC News sit-down sees Baldwin breaking down in tears as he talks about cinematographer Halyna Hutchins being fatally shot with a prop gun on Oct. 21.

The real surprise, however, was George Stephanopoulos asking why he fired the gun when it wasn't in the script and Baldwin replied, "The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger."

So he never pulled the trigger? "No, no, no, no," Baldwin answered. "I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, never."
...and then breaks down and weeps... # id) ?>
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-02 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1808 views ]  Top

1 pretty much the only way a bullet is fired is if you pull the trigger
Posted by Lord Garth 2021-12-02 00:07||   2021-12-02 00:07|| Front Page Top

2 How the Brain Hides Traumatic Memories

Take everything Baldwin says with a 'grain of salt'

Your grain of salt above...
You are welcome RB Readers.
Posted by Gerthudion Glomonter2477 2021-12-02 00:15||   2021-12-02 00:15|| Front Page Top

3 The cast had been out shooting the guns earlier. Nobody commented on the pistol with a hair-trigger?

Of course not. He pointed the gun and pulled the trigger, and meant to do it.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-12-02 00:25||   2021-12-02 00:25|| Front Page Top

4 Can we then safely assume he is a democrat ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-02 00:32||   2021-12-02 00:32|| Front Page Top

5 Typically you have to pull the hammer back for the first shot don't you?
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-12-02 00:44||   2021-12-02 00:44|| Front Page Top

6 Didn'tinhale.
Didn't pull the trigger.
Don't know if the laptop's mine.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-02 01:27||   2021-12-02 01:27|| Front Page Top

7 *** ^^^^ Good rendition of the TOP 3 Communist Democrat Answers from The Playbook -- BRAVO FERRET !
Posted by Fat Bob Angomp6622 2021-12-02 01:31||   2021-12-02 01:31|| Front Page Top

8 How's your parking pass working out for ya ?
Posted by Fat Bob Angomp6622 2021-12-02 01:32||   2021-12-02 01:32|| Front Page Top

9 Dindu nuffin
Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-02 03:57||   2021-12-02 03:57|| Front Page Top

10 
Lame denial acting and used CNN for it to boot.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-12-02 04:43||   2021-12-02 04:43|| Front Page Top

11 AB's worst acting performance to date
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-02 07:12||   2021-12-02 07:12|| Front Page Top

12 #10 - Lil Stephy "works" for ABC
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-02 07:22||   2021-12-02 07:22|| Front Page Top

13 Why hasn't someone been charged in this crime?
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-12-02 08:07||   2021-12-02 08:07|| Front Page Top

14 ^ Deplorables are BELOW the law
Hollywood libs are ABOVE the law
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-02 08:11||   2021-12-02 08:11|| Front Page Top

15 If he's a demonrat and his lips are moving, then we know he's lying.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-12-02 08:54||   2021-12-02 08:54|| Front Page Top

16 contrarian view - a (remote) possibility; odd are still he just F'd up.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-12-02 09:11||   2021-12-02 09:11|| Front Page Top

17 None of this would be an issue had Hutchins shot Baldwin.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-02 10:12||   2021-12-02 10:12|| Front Page Top

18 I'll certainly say, if the gun was already loaded and cocked, it could have well gone off without the trigger being pulled if it was unsafe to begin with. We're talking about a Peacemaker style revolver here.

I'm not making any excuses for Baldwin. That said, he could be telling the truth. Some people are pre-disposed to be unwilling to even consider that possibility, I know.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-02 10:15||   2021-12-02 10:15|| Front Page Top

19 "#13 Why hasn't someone been charged in this crime?"

Because the local DA hasn't yet decided whether charging Baldwin would help or hurt his run for New Mexico Attorney General later on.
Posted by Tom 2021-12-02 10:21||   2021-12-02 10:21|| Front Page Top

20 Many states have poured giant wads of taxpayer money into trying to lure film-making to their state. Why would they tarnish that "investment" by doing anything "filmmaker-unfriendly?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-02 10:26||   2021-12-02 10:26|| Front Page Top

21 Asst Director is now saying Alec didn't pull the trigger. Now they are trying to create a 'shadow of doubt' in any jurer's mind.

Alec IS evil.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-02 11:06||   2021-12-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

22 As your Cowboy Action Shooting friends will tell you, if the hammer doesn't go into full lock it may very well fall on a loaded chamber. Some pull and cock in a single motion sliding the draw hand along the holster and engaging the hammer with the thumb or the web between thumb and forefinger.

The automation shows the cylinder advancing a cartridge to firing position before the hammer is fully cocked. When using a web draw the shooter must change hand positions to free the hammer before pulling the trigger. Easy to slip.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-02 11:28||   2021-12-02 11:28|| Front Page Top

23 But, if your mind is already made up, the facts don't matter.
Posted by K. Rittenhouse 2021-12-02 11:31||   2021-12-02 11:31|| Front Page Top

24 I'll grant Baldwin the same suspension of disbelief as he would give any Conservative/Republican
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-02 12:10||   2021-12-02 12:10|| Front Page Top

25 So...none.
Me too, hope he hangs.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-02 13:54||   2021-12-02 13:54|| Front Page Top

26 A charm campaign. Bold move.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-02 13:59||   2021-12-02 13:59|| Front Page Top

27 ^ Bold move, Cotton

"Bring in the stunt charmer!"
Posted by Frank G 2021-12-02 14:03||   2021-12-02 14:03|| Front Page Top

28 A tip for Citizen Baldwin. Get yourself a different lawyer.

"The armorer hired my lawyer!"
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-02 15:04||   2021-12-02 15:04|| Front Page Top

29 A shortage of rounds in our bountiful
Land must of shame be a fount,
So, please, join with me
And support ABC,
Which, of course, stands for "All Bullets Count."
Posted by Ulereth the Slender3849 2021-12-02 19:07||   2021-12-02 19:07|| Front Page Top

30 I got one question: Why was there live ammo in a gun on a movie set?
That should never happen.
Posted by SteveS 2021-12-02 21:55||   2021-12-02 21:55|| Front Page Top

31 ^A group of staff walked off the set earlier in a pay and work conditions dispute with Alec. I believe one of them swapped a blank with a live round somehow.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-12-02 23:00||   2021-12-02 23:00|| Front Page Top

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