Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:59:40 -0500 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <1797980814.731492324.194688.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 00:59:40 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="680b125beb5e3c92aee45ac7c92a6837"; logging-data="2090191"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193EiCTih+/TkdFlD6zWqjU" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zsKJIGxcIshLVuSoL2GQi291rac= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3876 On 3/7/24 3:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > super70s wrote: > >> On 2024-03-07 17:50:50 +0000, Blueshirt said: >> >>> EGK wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>> https://deadline.com/2024/03/rust-movie-armorer-guilty-shooting-death-123584 >>> 7983/ >>> >>>> >>>> Classic example of shit rolling downhill and our two-tiered >>>> justice system. Baldwin is "loose" with weapons on the set >>>> and he fires the fatal shot but because he hired a young and >>>> very inexperienced armorer, she ends up being the perfect >>>> scapegoat. >>> >>> It's not about who hired the armourer or who held the gun, the >>> interesting thing about this case for me is who put the live >>> round in to a "prop" gun ... and was it deliberate?! > > It was not a prop gun. It was a real gun that was being used to shoot > blanks. > >> It is not beyond the realm of possibility that a gun -- especially one >> that had been tampered with to neutralize it -- could go off without >> pulling the trigger and just putting it in motion alone, I don't give a >> shit what "the FBI says." > > Yes, some internet rando who's never even seen the gun, let alone > examined it, is a better judge than FBI firearms experts, because Alec > is a reliable leftist so he must be excused at any cost. > > 'Neutralizing' a firearm consists of removing the firing pin. A gun > cannot fire without a firing pin anymore than the sun can rise in the > west. > > However, the gun in question here was not 'neutralized'. It was a > fully-functioning firearm that was intended to be used to shoot blanks. > Kinda blows your whole fantasy out of the water, huh? Sucks for both you > and Alec. > >> Sure would put a cramp in the NRA's and gun industry's style if that >> was shown to have happened in a high profile case like this though. > > Huh? Accepting your claim as true for the sake of argument, neither the > NRA nor the gun industry has ever claimed that if you fuck around with a > gun and take it out of manufacturer specs that it won't malfunction. > None of which makes Baldwin personally liable. End of case. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0