https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/alec-baldwin-manslaughter-rust-shooting-again-1235875855/
Good.
Since this shooting happened, I tried to defend Baldwin as best I could, even though I have a better version of the same gun that he used to kill his cinematographer.
I ran out of defenses for him a long freaking time ago.
It's possible for the hammer on a Colt-(style) revolver to fall and discharge the weapon without a trigger pull if there's some kind of manufacturer error, or somebody made a massive error making alterations to the gun. The odds were always about less than 1%.
What's most likely, now that reports are that Baldwin was rehearsing a cross-draw, was that he accidentally grabbed the trigger while thumbing the hammer. Those single action revolvers are so great, in part, because of the light trigger pull.
There's no time to flinch before the gun goes off if the hammer is fully cocked. That's also a benefit of 1911 platforms.
Still, you need to point the gun at the target in order for the bullet to hit that target.
The gun had to have been pointed at Hutchins for it to kill her. Baldwin had to have cocked the gun, and pulled the trigger.
The thing with the rules of gun safety is that, if you only violate one, for the most part, you don't hurt anybody.
I've been shooting for twenty years; and, I know plenty of people who have been shooting for twenty years. Most of us, including me, have had one accidental discharge. None of us have harmed anyone because we've only broken the one rule of keeping your finger off the trigger. We didn't combine that with breaking the rule of not pointing a gun at anything that you aren't prepared to destroy.
For this tragedy to happen, Baldwin needed to be criminally negligent -- especially when you include his role as a producer.
I'm a 2A absolutist in every way. Still, maybe there should be a greater cultural stigma surrounding people who are literally on the boards of gun control organizations playing with guns.
Maybe we should approach more people like Baldwin, who are common in Hollywood, and ask, "Wait, you want access to this freaking arsenal for entertainment; but, you don't want the average woman who has to take several trains and a bus back to her apartment in the Outer Borough in New York, who is afraid of being raped, or possibly already has been, to have access to a pistol because of a real life threat? How do you reconcile making millions of dollars advertising guns, glorifying guns, showing the uses and necessities of guns -- fundamentally being a wilful part of the largest gun porn industry on the planet -- and then turn around and say that us normies, who are far more responsible than you, shouldn't have guns?"
Maybe vocal anti-2A people should get what they want. They should have their guns taken away. They should be thrown in jail if they're caught with a gun.
That's what they want to happen to the rest of us.