Alec Baldwin doesn't feel guilty for the shooting of a young woman on the set of his new movie, Rust. He says he didn't pull the trigger, and that he would never point a gun at someone unless he was aiming it at them. But how does he know that? And why does he not blame Donald Trump for this tragedy? Is it really so hard to believe that someone else could be responsible for something so senseless and senselessly senseless? Is it possible that a real bullet got into the movie set and killed a real person? Or did someone else fire a gun that wasn't supposed to be on the property? And if so, who's to blame? Well, guess what? It's none of his fault. And it's not even his fault that someone fired a real gun into a real woman on a set of a movie set. It's the fault of someone else, not the gun itself, and it's no one else's fault that it happened at all. But that doesn't stop him from blaming someone else. And we should all be mad at Trump for not blaming Trump for his part in the shooting, because he's the only one who can do anything about it, right? . . . except maybe not even the one who actually has a chance to be mad about it. And that's not a bad thing at all . . The guy who can make millions of dollars off of guns. He doesn't have a problem with guns, but he doesn't even care about gun control. He just wants to own them. That's a gun control . and he doesn t give a damn about it and doesn't give a shit about it . . but he just wants them to have a gun so why not have a right to own a gun? or not have one? What's the problem with that s not even a gun he's not allowed to own one ? or a background check to make sure they're safe? in his own house because he can make money off of it? and they're not going to be able to protect their kids from the law enforcement he's just shoot someone else's kid in a movie but he's going to shoot them in the face with a gun in the movie ? or something like that? so what does that make him think he should have a shot at someone else?
00:00:00.000Guys, today we're going to talk a little bit more about the Alec Baldwin shooting tragedy where he shot a young lady on the set of his movie Rust.
00:00:26.000I'm actually shocked he didn't blame Trump.
00:00:29.000I'm shocked that the rest of Hollywood and the media hasn't somehow figured out a way to blame Trump for this one yet.
00:00:33.000But you know watch what he says and then we'll talk a little bit about it and how these guns function ever pull
00:00:38.000the trigger No, no, I would never point a gun at it when I pull the
00:00:41.000trigger at them. Never. What did you think happened?
00:00:44.000How did a real bullet get on that set?
00:00:46.000I have no idea Someone put a live bullet in a gun a bullet that wasn't
00:00:50.000even supposed to be on the property. Okay, so you heard that
00:00:53.000Like, now maybe there's some truth to that, but the only other way for a single action revolver to go off would be to physically pull the hammer back and let it slip.
00:01:02.000Okay? That action is significantly more deliberate and Harder than pulling a trigger, okay?
00:01:10.000It's not like a Dirty Harry movie where you pull the trigger, the hammer comes back and slams forward, okay?
00:01:14.000That starts the process of firing off the bullet, right?
00:01:17.000Hammer comes down, firing pin hits a primer, primer explodes, sets off an ignition that lights the gunpowder, gunpowder expands, creates pressure, sends the bullet down the bore, right?
00:01:26.000That's how this works. But because this is an old Western, okay, single-action revolvers You had to physically cock the hammer back before you could pull the trigger.
00:01:35.000Or there was something called fanning.
00:01:36.000When you see them shooting fast, they're going like this.
00:01:38.000They're holding the trigger in and fanning.
00:01:40.000So theoretically, you could pull a hammer back and let it slip, but in Alec Baldwin's mea culpa, it's like, I didn't do anything.
00:01:46.000It's like, well, wait a minute. Pulling the hammer back is much harder than pulling the trigger.
00:01:52.000It's a much lighter tension than pulling back physically the hammer enough to get it to slam forward And set off the process in question that killed this young lady tragically on the set of his movie.
00:02:04.000So, you know, when he does this, oh, it's not my, I would never point a loaded gun at someone.
00:02:08.000Well, you're cocking that hammer back.
00:02:11.000That physically, again, takes more pounds, generally speaking, than pulling a trigger.
00:02:15.000A trigger's pretty light. Pulling this hammer back is difficult because the counter response is that same spring that you have to pull back has to pull that hammer forward fast enough to set off the primer and get the process going on.
00:02:28.000So do we believe Alec Baldwin any of this?
00:02:31.000Like, you know, he doesn't feel any guilt because he did nothing wrong.
00:03:16.000And again, I'm surprised they didn't blame Trump.
00:03:19.000But remember when you're talking about this, an additional and or more deliberate step.
00:03:23.000He either had to pull back his hammer physically much harder on a single-action revolver because I... Having shot probably hundreds of thousands of rounds, owning lots of guns, doing this all the time, have probably a far greater understanding than the media reporting on it and the lawmakers who make our gun laws who clearly don't know what the hell they're talking about when they're enacting these kind of policies.
00:03:44.000You can see that simply by reading it.
00:03:45.000The people who draft the rules and the laws and the people who talk about them on TV have no idea what they're talking about.
00:03:51.000Just like Joe Biden, you know, firing off warning shots in the air, which would be illegal in most cases and in almost all cases.
00:03:59.000I don't know what that is, but I'd like one.
00:04:01.000So, keep in mind that either an additional step had to take place, he had to physically cock the hammer before pointing the gun at someone and pulling the trigger, or he had to pull something back that's pretty hard, let it slip while aiming it at someone after not having checked the gun.
00:04:16.000Either way, this whole thing doesn't make any sense and it's something that people aren't talking about because it's an additional, possibly, or a more deliberate step than simply pulling the trigger, right?
00:04:28.000This isn't like some magic like Star Wars e-gun that you imagine it and it just fires because it's a machine.
00:04:34.000An action creates another action which starts the process.
00:04:37.000Okay? Single-action revolvers, far more difficult probably than most other guns, certainly guns of today, to get firing because of the additional steps, because of the difficulty of pulling these things.
00:04:50.000Again, it doesn't just magically happen like Alec would probably want you to believe.
00:04:54.000Like an actor will try to sell to the American public on George Stephanopoulos, a lot had to happen.
00:05:02.000Whether it's cocking it all the way and pulling the trigger, whether it's pulling it back far enough to create enough spring tension to let it slam forward, these were deliberate actions.