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Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:59:40 -0500
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On 3/7/24 3:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <usd4oo$17cct$1@dont-email.me>,
>   super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-03-07 17:50:50 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>
>>> EGK wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk
>>>> <anim8rfsk@cox.net> 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.

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