This should be a simple case. Baldwin, who by his own admission is a firearms expert (at least the way he carries on about banning guns, he certainly must making that claim), took a loaded gun, pointed at a person and pulled the trigger.
I don't care how many people outside of him were "responsible". He pulled the trigger. He did not properly check the gun. It wasn't a prop. It was a real gun.
If I go into a gun range and rent a gun, and the range safety officer hands me a gun, tells me it is not loaded, and I point it at a person and shoot them...there is no scenario where I don't go to jail for manslaughter, at the very least. There is no difference here. He knew it was a real gun and he murdered a person with it.
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