The Machine Did It–Human Not Responsible
The Gun Did It
After fatally shooting someone on his movie set, Alec Baldwin now claims, “I didn’t pull the trigger. . . .” Absent detailed information about the incident, still there is evidence of blatant disregard for common firearm safety measures.
Where was Alec’s muzzle discipline? If the firearm had been pointed in a safe direction, even an unintentional discharge would have had drastically different consequences. The noise from the handgun going off unexpectedly would likely have scared everyone there, but unless there had been a tragic ricochet, there would have been no deaths.
Why was he using one hand to de-cock a single-action revolver, especially when his on-camera testimony with George Stephanopoulos suggested they were in rehearsal? Use two hands, Alec: one to control the hammer, and the other to control the trigger. It may be he played in too many movies where handguns were involved, and got careless on this set because, “he already knew about guns.”
As one who carried and used firearms for a living, and, now, as a firearm instructor, even the sketchy details we have about this incident make me angry!
The Car Did It
After being released from jail on what the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office belatedly opined was an “inappropriately low” bail, Darryl Brooks, Jr. was in a domestic violence altercation, and then apparently fled, recklessly, if not maliciously, plowing into Christmas parade performers in Wakesha, WI, killing five at the scene, with one other dying shortly thereafter in a hospital.
Several media reports identified the perpetrator as a “car,” or “SUV” as if the vehicle was one of Tesla’s AI vehicles gone amuck, a la “Stealth,” rather than reporting “a driver of . . . .” Several referred to the massacre as if it were accidental, referring to it as a “parade crash.”
Consistency Is Important
Of course, if one reviews the left-stream narrative, they are consistent: machines are evil. They kill people. Witness: car kills performers in a Wakesha parade; gun kills movie set employee, and wounds another; gun kills two, and wounds one in Kenosha; guns kill uncounted hundreds in Chicago. Individuals are guilty only if they do not fit the DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) profile, and presumptively at that.