Gun shoots, kills Halyna Hutchins without provocation Baldwin asserts

He didn't pull the trigger, didn't aim the evil gun in his hand that shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust."

"I would never carefully aim a gun at anyone, much less pull the thingy that makes the gun go bang," Baldwin told fellow Democrat and Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos. "Somehow that gun ended the life of a beautiful person. Maybe it was rusty. . . . yeah, that's what it was, rusty."

According to gun experts and kids who watch westerns, guns don't go off by themselves, even when they're occasionally half-cocked. But that's the story Alec Baldwin gave and he's sticking with it.

Some say he got the idea from the Compromised News Network's reporting on the Waukesha attack by a black man driving his SUV into a crowd of white parade marchers on Thanksgiving. CNN reported the story as if the vehicle did it on its own, never mentioning anything about a driver intentionally running over children and elderly marchers. Had the driver been white and the marchers been black, well that's a different headline.

Baldwin evidently knows as much about firearms as FDR knew about cell phones. Even if the gun actually did have a mind of its own, or just went off without outside causation, the one thing a person holding a firearm must do is to check to ensure it isn't loaded, and to never, never, ever point it at anything they're not planning to shoot.

Evidently, Baldwin had to be pointing it at the late Ms. Hutchins on October 21st when the .45 Colt revolver went off.

Weird that it did by itself, however. In order to fire the Colt revolver the hammer must be cocked back and the trigger pulled. If the hammer is not cocked back, you could drop the gun and it still would not fire. It's a two-step process to fire the gun and it would be incredibly rare for it to go off by itself.

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Baldwin can point fingers at the weapons armorer or any of the stage hands responsible for the props, but ultimately the person with the gun in hand is responsible for the gun and its safety measures.

“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never," Baldwin told Stephanopoulos, and claims that he has "no idea" how a live bullet got on the set.

"Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property," he adds.

"Guns don't just go off," Sheriff Adan Mendoza told Fox News Digital. "So whatever needs to happen to manipulate the firearm, he did that and it was in his hands."

Film and prop historian Michael Corrie explained to Fox News that firing a revolver without pulling the trigger would require a "mechanical failure."

"The hammer needs to be fully locked to the rear for the weapon to function," Corrie explained. "Which necessitates manual operation of the weapon."

And that, dear readers, is why you are the last in line of responsibility of the firearm.

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