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‘I Didn’t Pull the Trigger’
Really? That seems unlikely. I mean, that’s how guns work: it’s amazing how unlikely they are to fire if someone’s finger isn’t on the trigger. So, while it’s possible that Mr. Baldwin didn’t pull the trigger, there is about a zero percent probability that he didn’t pull the trigger.
Of course, he didn’t pull the trigger.
(Interesting note: There is such a thing as a possible event that has a zero probability of occurring. Math is an endless buffet.)
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, DA John Chisolm didn’t pull the trigger when his soft-on-crime bail policies let serial felon Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. out on $1,000 bail less than a month ago when he assaulted and then drove his vehicle into his girlfriend. His mobility restored, Mr. Brooks then committed mass murder and put another few dozen folks into the hospital when he plowed into a Christmas parade last week in Waukesha. (The SUV, of course, receives top billing, since Mr. Brooks is, by virtue of his hue, not useful as an example of America’s purported White Supremacist problem. For what it’s worth, the SUV wasn’t white either.)
Meanwhile, in the City of Brotherly Love and record-breaking homicide, DA Larry Krasner didn’t pull the trigger when he knocked the bail down from $200,000 to zero and then dropped all charges against (alleged) violent serial criminal Latif Williams. Mr. Williams wasted no time in making good on his inexplicable freedom by (allegedly) murdering Tulane Temple University student Samuel Collington three days ago, while attempting to steal the young man’s SUV and shooting him twice because Mr. Collington was reluctant to surrender the vehicle (which belonged to his mother).
Unlike Kyle Rittenhouse, neither Mr. Brooks nor Mr. Williams is a nerdy little white kid carrying a scary gun. They’re just a couple of guys who can’t stay out of trouble, but who manage to stay out of jail thanks to the generosity of prominent Democratic DAs who are more concerned about being woke than doing their jobs.
2022 is coming.
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CP, thank you for the correction. Fixed it.
I’d like to find out that “Weird Al” Yankovic has done a parody of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” “I Didn’t Pull The Trigger.”
There are easily hundreds of comments on gun safety in Hollywood in the first thread on this incident. I’ll add a link later. On mobile now.
Well, there are differences in both mechanisms and tolerances, and presumably hardening and finish and resistance to wear and even chipping. And this can be known within days of the negligence labeled an “accident”. So can early “eye witness” accounts and histories. What we’ve got now is a lot of hearsay. What I’ve read includes that the guns, presumably under the control of the previous armorer (if the same pistols were used (which doesn’t make sense to me) were used for sport plinking the previous night. And that Baldwin said, before firing, regarding reshooting the scene yet again, something like: How about if I just shoot the two of you?
And a personal peeve of mine is how much emphasis is placed on an actor… crying... in front of a camera. Oh, he must only be genuinely moved beyond the boundaries of self-control to do that.
Zackly.
Are you saying that this pistol, among other things, had a half-cock position? Certainly it may have, and I would expect that since it was extent technology at the time of the guns original manufacture. But there would be no need to ever polish that down. And it negates the idea that he “cocked” the gun and when he simply let it go of the hammer it went all the way forward and struck the primer.
It’s funny how the mechanics of the internals of the gun have taken precedence in the news coverage over the negligence of pointing a loaded gun at a person.
Though I’m sure most everyone gets it, the point of the original post wasn’t to re-examine Mr. Baldwin’s accidental shooting (because he pulled the trigger, almost certainly) of that unfortunate woman, but rather to suggest that we have a lot of powerful officials right now whose irresponsible behavior is leading to mayhem, and that we should keep drawing attention to the fact that these people are, in a figurative but very real sense, pulling the trigger.
Is that buff ay or buff et?
Heh. It’s the good kind, the one with all-you-can-eat fried foods and desserts.
Mathematically, they are equal. But buff ay is more equal.
I’d rather eat what I want than get whacked.
Then don’t make a movie with Alec Baldwin.
No one would pay me to make a movie with or without AB.
Are you so sure that’s the good kind?
Depends. Is it a meal consisting of multiple courses, a table or room where such a meal is presented, or a series of repeated, violent blows?
If you are on the receiving end, yes.
Can you feel your arteries hardening while you’re eating?
You look pretty photogenic in your avatar.
That picture’s 25 years old.
So you’ve aged into being in Western movies?
Probably not.
You look good. You look very good. You look like an android from Blade Runner good.
Even my wife liked me back then.
Guys, get a chat room.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
You don’t like Blade Runner?
You kidding me? Top ten, for sure.
The novel The Bladerunner by Alan E Nourse was very good. The movie(s) which actually come from a different story “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick (and “blade running” is never mentioned in that story, but is central to the Nourse book) has never particularly interested me.
I was thinking of the movie based on Dick.
Typical.
Is there another book or movie that shows androids that are indistinguishable from humans and that look like Rutger Hauer? Please share.