Lecture Time's Over

Alec Baldwin.  Actor.  Anti-2nd Amendment activist.  Arrogant leftist virtue-signaling lecturer to the deplorables, like me.

Some time ago, Baldwin -- on one of his anti-gun rants and in this case appearing to be referring to a  police shooting -- pondered "I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone?"

Thanks to an inexcusable and tragic lack of gun safety training and simple common sense, now he knows.

At a movie site where he is co-producing, he -- with a 'prop gun' -- shot and killed a colleague.

Sure:  it's being treated as an accident.  Perhaps that's what it was.  And I reckon that if it was, Baldwin feels beyond awful about it.  As an accident, it's tragic...and was so preventable.

Whether it'll cool his jets about his anti-2nd Amendment fervor and his personal distain for the NRA, and replace it with more of a sense of advocating proper training and basic safety, remains to be seen.

Too late now, but if he'd bothered to read a little bit of simple safety literature from an organization he loves to demonize, he would still be just stupidly speculating about what he now knows as part of his chosen narrative.

 The authorities at the scene in Arizona have some investigating to do, to be sure.  And questions to be answered.  Like for example, how did a 'live round' wind up in a movie 'prop gun'?

And another:  why did Baldwin point and fire the 'prop gun' that was allegedly 'cold', at an unintended target (aka, his colleague)?

Baldwin and I aren't that far apart in age, though we are farther apart in ideology.  When I grew up, basic gun safety was taught by the NRA and I attended NRA safety training in school.

Even the most rudimentary rules of gun safety are anywhere you want to be, and in general are pretty common sense to folks that have common sense.

There's more than a few right ways to handle firearms safely and responsibly.

And more than a few wrong ways.

I've had NRA basic and combat firearm training.  A whole lot of stress on safety went with it.

I never accept a firearm handed to me by anyone that I haven't first observed them to unload, and me to confirm it's unloaded.  Simple basic common sense and ALWAYS STRESSED in firearms safety training.

No one's ever been shot accidentally or otherwise by any of my firearms.  Including me.

It is reported that employees working on this movie Baldwin was co-producing had, shortly before the shooting, walked off the set due to concerns about safety to the staff.

What a tragic and senseless way to emphasize a point.

Anyway...anti-gunners will continue their pogroms on the NRA and law-abiding citizens, while drawing the entirely wrong conclusions from places like Shotcago on any given weekend.

And they'll continue to virtue signal and lecture us 'deplorables' about the evils of our gun-owning ways.

They'll choose to overlook that criminal gun violence occurs because criminals don't give a rat's ass about any law written.  Which is why they're criminals.

Gun control laws only impact law-abiding citizens.

But it would behoove those who choose to campaign against guns to, at the very least, understand the most basic of safety rules when it comes to handling guns.  ANY guns.

At least in that way, perhaps current and future entertainment colleagues in Hollywood and elsewhere won't wind up as wrongfully killed statistics.

Halyna Hutchins, God bless.