Alec Baldwin files lawsuit in "Rust" shooting: he's the real victim

No one in their right mind would have Alec Baldwin serve as the starter of a race using a starter's gun after he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust." Sure, it was apparently an accident when he took a loaded gun that was supposed to be firing blanks, aimed it at Hutchins and pulled the trigger [which he denies, but the gun was tested and he was lying].

On Friday, the actor filed a lawsuit against the armorer and three others in the "Rust" crew for being responsible for Baldwin not checking to ensure it was loaded with blanks, rather than live rounds. It isn't known how the live round(s) got into the weapon, but somehow it did and Baldwin went on a denial tour in which he did everything except directly blame former President Donald Trump.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court as a cross complaint stemming from a previous suit in which a different member of the crew named Baldwin and the others as defendants.

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The new suit is one of a number of others stemming from the tragedy that happened on October 21, 2021 as the case remains under criminal investigation and could result in New Mexico filing charges and Alec Baldwin getting convicted of a crime rather than simple stupidity and total lack of gun safety knowledge.

Baldwin’s cross complaint names armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first assistant director Dave Halls, prop supplier Seth Kenney, and prop master Sarah Zachry. Attorneys for Gutierrez-Reed, Halls and Kenney did not immediately respond to requests for statements in their clients’ defense. Reuters could not locate an attorney for Zachry and Darrell Brooks was unavailable to represent him as he is serving his own sentence for mass murder at the Waukesha Christmas Parade last November.

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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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