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Alec Baldwin shoots two, one dead, one in hospital

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Walls close in on Alec Baldwin as his gun lie falls apart

Alec Baldwin has always insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that he didn’t pull that trigger.
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Alec Baldwin has always insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that he didn’t pull that trigger.

The FBI now says that he did. That finding, released over the weekend, comes just after the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office announced it’s only waiting for Baldwin’s phone records before sending its investigative file to the DA’s office.

Are the walls closing in yet, Alec?

This FBI report is reason to cheer. Not since OJ Simpson have we seen someone so guilty act so aggrieved, entitled, put-upon and victimized, as if this whole tragedy has affected no one more than Baldwin himself — not Halyna Hutchins’ husband, not her little boy, so traumatized after her death that he couldn’t speak for days, but Alec freaking Baldwin.

Think that’s overstatement? Let me count the ways: Gallivanting through the Hamptons and Vermont, just days after the shooting, Baldwin shopping at Ralph Lauren and preening before the paps — you know, the ones he otherwise hates and physically attacks — so they could get the perfect shot of Baldwin, inside a gleaming restaurant, holding his head in his hands. The bizarre roadside presser with his fake Spanish wife, the Rachel Dolezal of the Hamptons, in which he claimed the “Rust” set was run by “a very, very well-oiled crew” who just had the bad luck to suffer this “one in a trillion” tragedy.





00:0101:13An FBI report found that Alec Baldwin fired the fatal bullet on the “Rust” set.Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
The barrage of social media posts in the days after, Hilaria and Alec gloating over their family — that is, when Hilaria wasn’t getting in on the victim act herself, writing that “parenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least.”

Know what else will be an intense experience? Criminal charges, jail time, and the loss of all his money in civil litigation. (On Monday, the New Mexico medical investigator ruled the shooting an accident; the district attorney has yet to decide whether to file charges.)

In this image from video released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, Alec Baldwin stands in costume and speaks with investigators following a fatal shooting last year on a movie set in Santa Fe, N.M. Alec Baldwin stands in his “Rust” costume and speaks with investigators following the October 2021 shooting.Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office via APAlec Baldwin in a scene from Rust.The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office announced it’s waiting for Baldwin’s phone records before sending its investigative file to the DA’s office.Santa Fe County SheriffA distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's offices on Camino Justicia after being questioned on Oct. 20, 2021 .A distraught Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office in Camino Justice after being questioned.Jim Weber/The New Mexican
Did I mention that the Baldwins thought there was no better time to buy a sprawling, historic Vermont farmhouse for $1.75 million?

That’s how delusional these two are. How surely they believe Alec to be above the law or any consequence.

As two firearms experts in on-set safety told me last year: Guns don’t fire themselves. Alec Baldwin, for all his caterwauling and crocodile tears, pulled that trigger and killed Halyna Hutchins.

“I’m not aware of any gun firing itself,” veteran Hollywood firearms expert Steve Wolf told me last December, after Alec’s poor-me softball sit-down with ABC’s George Stephanopolous — his good pal from the Hamptons social scene, not that either disclosed that little conflict of interest.

Halyna Hutchins’ widower filed a civil suit against Baldwin.AP/Andres Leighton
“The trigger still must have been pressed,” Wolf said. “It’s really important to discredit anyone who claims that guns fire themselves. If this becomes an acceptable defense, there goes any accountability when it comes to shooting people. We can’t have this kind of ‘Guns shoot themselves’ thing. They don’t.”

Former FBI agent-turned-Hollywood firearms consultant Bobby Chacon told me the same thing.

“The bullet striking and killing that woman came out of the barrel of the gun pointed directly at her,” Chacon said. “Bullets don’t curve. He isn’t in ‘The Matrix.’ The trigger would still have to be pulled.”

Alec, to Stephanopolous: “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. Never.” Also, he was brazen enough to say he felt no guilt.

The shooting happened inside the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, NM.AP/Jae C. HongHalyna on set before the shooting.Seven crew members walked off the set over safety concerns after Hutchins’ death.FacebookAlec Baldwin is seen in stills from a police video interview following the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of western movie Rust last October.Baldwin claimed the “Rust” set was run by “a very, very well-oiled crew.”Santa Fe County Sheriff/MEGA
This was the same interview in which Baldwin claimed Hutchins told him to point the gun at her. “Everything is at her direction,” he said. “I’m holding the gun where she told me to hold it, which ended up right below her armpit.”

So which is it, Alec? You’d never point a gun at anyone, or you pointed the gun at Hutchins because she told you to? And if it’s the latter, what are we to infer — that Hutchins is to blame for you pulling the trigger and shooting her to death?

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It’s all so vile, but take heart: As a producer on “Rust,” Baldwin may also share blame for the rookie mistakes and cost-cutting that led up to this tragedy. Don’t forget that on the morning Hutchins was killed, seven crew members walked off the set over safety concerns.

At least one had sounded the alarm to the unit production manager, at one point texting, “We’ve now had three accidental discharges. This is super unsafe.”

It’s easy to see how such standard safety protocols went ignored and how dire warnings were shrugged off. As the old saying goes, the fish rots from the head, and Baldwin, as we’ve all seen over the past year, lives in a reality of his own making: His wife, née Hillary Thomas from Boston, is, through sheer force of make-believe and some bronzer, Spanish. His great friend Woody Allen is just misunderstood.

And, of course, it’s totally proper to brag about your happy family life incessantly on Instagram while ignoring your part in destroying another young family.

In Baldwin’s demented worldview, anyone who thinks he’s responsible for the death of a beautiful young wife and mother, her whole life and career ahead of her, must be motivated by animus or greed. Even the widower.

Alec Baldwin in RustBaldwin recently bought a historic Vermont farmhouse for $1.75 million.InstagramAlec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Baldwin appear at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 17, 2017. Hilaria Baldwin has defended her husband following the accident.Jordan Strauss/Invision/APHucthins being attended by medics.Hutchins died the day of the shooting.Santa Fe County Sheriff
“What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever” — ! — “on whatever side, who, their attitude is, ‘Well, the people who likely seem negligent have no money, and the people who have money are not negligent.’ ”

This was Baldwin in March, weeks after Hutchins’ widower filed his civil suit against Baldwin and went on the “Today” show, calmly expressing his justifiable anger over Baldwin’s interview with Stephanopolous.

“Hearing him blame Halyna in the interview and shift responsibility to others and seeing him cry about it — I just feel, are we really supposed to feel bad about you, Mr. Baldwin?”

Hutchins went on to state the obvious, which again continues to elude Baldwin — Baldwin, who prides himself on being smarter than the average Hollywood duck, what with his one-time NPR show and his bestselling memoir and his coverage in The New Yorker and telling the New York Times that he was qualified to be governor of New York. Oh, and his liberal bona fides with his “SNL” spoofs of Donald Trump, a man he has more in common with than he could ever admit.

The gun Baldwin used.Baldwin has said he never pulled the gun’s trigger.Santa Fe County Sheriff Departme
Lest there remain any doubt as to who Alec Baldwin really is, consider these text messages between Baldwin and Matt Hutchins — whom Baldwin was so quick to befriend in the hours after the shooting.

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, after Hutchins reaches out to Baldwin:

AB: I am with my kids.

!!!!!!!

AB: Your attorney told me not to contact you. So . . . what’s up?

A woman displays a sign calling for workplace safety at a vigil for cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who died after being shot by Alec Baldwin on the set of his movie Rust, in Albuquerque.A woman displays a sign calling for workplace safety at a vigil for Hutchins.REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt
What’s up? That says it all. That’s Baldwin saying: Why are you bothering me, what could you possibly have to say, can’t we just do this through lawyers, what are you, sad or something?

AB: Make sure you tell your lawyer that you reached out to me and not vice versa.

MH: Of course. You can always text me if you have something on your mind.

AB: Your lawyer sent a variant of a cease and desist to me. Told me not to contact you. So, there’s that.

How callous. How heartless — especially for someone who has spent the past 10 months begging for sympathy and understanding.

Karma isn’t a big enough concept to describe what Alec Baldwin has coming. Fortunately for decent people everywhere, sloppy emotional ploys and disgusting attempts to blame the victim do not apply to the criminal justice system, the FBI, or the laws of physics.

So, you know, there’s that."
 
To make it look real isn't industry protocol for the actor to pull the trigger, but the protocol is also that they have assured that the gun has a blank, which doesn't injure or kill anyone?

In terms of culpability for the death and the injury I don't think it matters whether or not he "pulled the trigger".

But yeah, if he did pull it he should not have said that he did not.

I would not be at all surprised if the mind is capable of unconsciously and involuntarily change its memory from pulled trigger to not pulled it for something this traumatic - no fault of the gun holder.
 
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Just saw this title pop up and thought "Not again?!?"
 
LilAlex said:
Just saw this title pop up and thought "Not again?!?"
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Major media is reporting new developments in this case.
Some posters are interested in the story.

If a thread doesn't interest me I just ignore it.
 
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kenny said:
If a thread doesn't interest me I just ignore it.
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No, I meant that I (very briefly) thought he shot people again. Glad to see it's just a new lead...
 
Ah Ha.
Thanks for 'splainin. :))
 
What I find maddening is that they did not report on the most common way a gun of this type can fire without the trigger being pulled.
It does not have a transfer bar or hammer block safety which is why it fired when the hammer was down and it was hit.
This means if it was cocked close to full cock but not all the way and let fly forward it could fire without the trigger getting pulled if the half cock sear was worn.
From the media reporting of the report this is not mentioned only that it would not fire from half or full cock without the trigger being pulled which does preclude it being able to fire by just pulling the hammer back. It may not even do it every time either.
Even if it did he broke so many rules of gun handling and the rules of safe gun usage on a set that he should be convicted.
 
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