No doubt about it, the far right is at least as insane as the far left!
Alec Baldwin in to be charged, the far right will dance & cheer and it will burn them down later.
See, this is effectively stating that there’s no such thing as a gun accident. If anyone has an accident, they are a felon who is going to prison, will lose their right to vote and their right the bear arms.
You think the right wing is going to like that? Hmm?
Because nobody is disputing the facts as we had learned previously:
Alec Baldwin was handed a gun. He was told the gun was “Cold,” that there weren’t any blank cartridges in it, never mind live rounds.
This gun was loaded with “Duds,” so to speak: They look exactly like regular bullets but contain no gunpowder, no primer. This is what was supposed to be in the gun, “Duds.”
This gun was loaded with these “Duds” specifically because the front of the gun was to be seen on camera, so they had to load it with something to make it look real.
Alec Baldwin could have checked & checked & checked & checked all day and that gun could not have looked dangerous to him. Or, more specifically, it looked EXACTLY like it was supposed to look. He was 100% dependent upon what he was told.
Finally, the front of the gun was supposed to be on camera.
So who was at fault? Ultimately, whoever placed live rounds in with what were supposed to be “Duds.”
Whoever provided that ammunition is guilty of negligence. And if the supplier was different from the armorer, the armorer on set is responsible. It’s their job. They are hired to do these things.
So the idiot far right is going to be hap, hap, HAPPY about Baldwin being charged with a crime, because they invented Cancel Culture in the first place and are hungry to get some canceling done, but it’s setting the bar on themselves *Way* higher than they are going to like, just as soon as they nail Baldwin.
Shootings on set are not unprecedented. Charging the actor is.
By definition, any and all accidental shootings involve a gun pointing at someone, so from here on in all accidents are felonies.
What about those negligent folks whose guns are stolen?
What of those negligent folks who sell their guns to people who turn around and use them in a crime?
You know, you may keep the constitutional right to own a gun but, with your hard work, it’s going to be a crime to use it, even accidentally, if even if it’s not you but someone else using your gun...
One bad decision, one moment of anger has now destroyed two lives and now this man will spend what is left of his life in prison.
For what? For a simple argument or disagreement? For that, lethal force was needed?
Once again, we are reminded of how dire the need is for effective gun reform. What business did this man have with a gun, let alone being armed at the time of this sad event?
The NRA lobby and the assorted gun-nuts and ammosexuals who support an absolutist interpretation of the 2nd Amendment are going to have to give some ground, or else there is a real chance in the future that the 2nd Amendment will be repealed altogether.
What other choice will be left? If we cannot put reasonable restrictions and regulations on the possession and use of firearms, then that is where we are headed.
Many will argue that this man had every right to own and carry that gun, but in retrospect I am sure he wishes he had not picked it up and took it with him that day.
I hope that he does receive a life sentence for this. Had he stopped and thought for one more second about what he was about to do, perhaps he would have made a different choice. But, he didn't and now he has to pay the price.