Posted on 11/17/2021 6:47:13 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Yeah. Who are you going to believe? Them or your own lying eyes?
Perhaps courtrooms deserve to practice the “Hollywood exception” to the safety rules. You can’t, however, suggest that exercising the “Hollywood exception” is “perfectly safe”. Alec Baldwin proved that it isn’t perfectly safe.
That doesn't matter! When you pick up a gun ... IT IS LOADED. PERIOD. Until you determine otherwise.
Over 60 yrs ago, after I picked myself off the ground I learned fast not to even accidentally point a weapon at someone.
Has anyone noticed that the article was published by NEWSWEAK and not NEWSWEEK?
Ummmmm....No.
Why would anyone need to “look down the barrel from the muzzle? And why should the muzzle be pointed at anyone while cleaning?
I’ve handled thousands of firearms. And never once been tempted to look down the muzzle. But to each his own I guess.
Yes, it was a direct threat.
Loaded, not loaded, checked by others or not, this was a clown-move to intimidate the jury - period. The DA needs to attend an NRA gun safety class at the barest of minimum, and needs a refresher in self-defense, Wisconsin gun laws, the 5th Amendment, and "law". He skipped the class about law in law school.
He needs to be under the scrutiny of the Wisconsin Bar Association based on his prosecutorial misadventures.
LOL! That’s experience!
” If the chamber was checked “
I didn’t see him check it an his finger is on the trigger.
Doesn't matter. A live round could easily be snuck into the courtroom, metal detectors nonwithstanding.
The handling of the firearm SHOULD and MUST be an assault and/or menacing charge.
Useful tactic just in case the jury forgot burnings, lootings and violence would start that night... with matches, walking around money, masks, tents, homemade 'looking' signs, pallets of weapons, and hordes of help getting them bailed out of jail... would be ready and willing to keep the horror going.
It might be considered 'jury intimidation'...
Are you gonna believe Brandon Media newspuppet Yevgeny, or your own lying eyes?
Only an idiot would pose like that in a courtroom and think he’s doing something to impress a jury. I hope that photo, at least, is used in every firearm safety training course from now, on, right along with the cop shooting himself in the foot in front of a classroom full of kids.
Do you think the prosecutor did any of those things?
The photos of Kyle & the gun he DID use are available all over the place.
The DA did NOT use the same gun.
The gun the DA used does NOT look the same, especially where a person used their LEFT hand.
TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
Another case of the DA mis-representing evidence, IMO.
I hope the judge caught this.
The problem with that movie was that their weapon/ammunition inventory control was inherently dangerous. And of course, Baldwin should have checked the weapon himself. And if he did, there wouldn't have been an accident.
In this case, as much as I hate the prosecutor, it seems like we're trying to make a lot out of a little. We can see there is no magazine. None of us know -- because we weren't there -- if that chamber was checked and shown to be empty in full view of the lawyers, jurors, and bailiff. If it was...then pointing it in a direction away from the jurors as a demonstration is completely safe.
We have so many perfectly valid criticisms of this prosecutor that it weakens those criticisms to add one that may not be valid at all.
IT WAS NOT THE GUN KYLE USED....
Look hard at photo of Kyle & where the left hand holds the weapon.
DA gun was different.
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