re: Why is Alec Baldwin responsible for murder?

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That is a terrible analogy, but I can make it work. If I am in my house, filming a movie that I am producing, and a professional armorer hands me a gun, saying, “This gun is not loaded”, and I shot someone with it I’d feel the same as what I posted above about Alec Baldwin.

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As in my analogy, the person with the gun is responsible. If you're holding the literal smoking gun, you are responsible for any and all bullets that come out the business end. It's negligence. And the lady died so that negligence led to a homicide.

If I'm home cleaning a gun and, out of negligence, fail to check and clear the gun, send a round into my neighbors chest next door, I can't say "oops, thought it was unloaded".

Maybe he thought it was safe by the word of the armorer, but he pulled the hammer aimed and fired. You can be sympathetic but this guy killed someone out of negligence. Any one of us would be guilty of it no matter the circumstance. Ignorance is not a defense.

ETA I can't imagine you carry, know the risks, know the law or been through the training. Gun laws are gun laws.