Alec Baldwin blames his dead victim for him shooting her

It takes a special kind of scum weasel to be irresponsible with a firearm, shoot someone and then blame the victim for her death. This scum weasel is Alec Baldwin and words cannot express how much he is loathed by anyone who has ever had a smidgeon of firearms safety training under their belt.

Baldwin has filed legal papers that lay out some of the blame on the person he shot and killed with a handgun: Halyna Hutchins.

Ms. Hutchins was a Hollywood cinematographer whose career was beginning to climb before Alec Baldwin held a firearm, pointed it at her and the gun went off and killed her. They were filming a movie called "Rust."

In Baldwin's recent court filing, he claims that his contract with the movie productions shields him from any financial responsibility for the deadly shooting, which occurred on the New Mexico set. It also claims that it was Hutchins who told the chronically angry Baldwin where to aim the gun that ended her life. Evidently, she assumed it was not loaded and that Baldwin had checked it. Even if she didn't assume the latter, it is always, always, always the responsibility of the person with the gun to practice gun safety and that means the first thing one does is check to see if it is loaded. 

Baldwin did not check the gun.

The filing says Hutchins “directed Baldwin to hold the gun higher, to a point where it was directed toward her. She was looking carefully at the monitor and then at Baldwin, and then back again, as she gave these instructions.”

And before Baldwin followed her directions for the shot, he did not check the gun.

The court document argues that it was clear Hutchins thought the gun was unloaded — or “cold,” using Hollywood terminology. Of course she did--anyone who directs someone to point a firearm at them for a movie would think the weapon was not loaded. But the responsibility always lies with the person holding the weapon.

“In giving and following these instructions, Hutchins and Baldwin shared a core, vital belief: that the gun was ‘cold’ and contained no live rounds,” the document says. 

So Baldwin shared a core, vital BELIEF, that the gun was "cold." 

Baldwin’s filing also says Hutchins instructed Baldwin to pull back the firearm’s hammer.

It goes on to assert that it was not Baldwin’s responsibility to check the firearm he was handed to see if it was loaded because the movie’s guns were under the authority of the set armorer.

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But the document is full of crap. It was Baldwin's responsibility. He is also, ironically, against the ownership of firearms and the Second Amendment. That makes sense when you consider that he still claims that he didn't pull the trigger. If guns have minds of their own, then owning one could get you in trouble if it decides to kill someone.

Baldwin is a despicable individual and will likely get away with this mindless and senseless shooting, scot- free as New Mexico authorities haven't filed any charges against him.

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