Conspiracy theorists claim that Alec Baldwin's shooting accident was "set up by Trump supporters"

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    Interesting. I'm aware that Donald Trump has been the subject of various conspiracy theories (such as him being in direct cohorts with Putin or Dugin, and having "masterminded" the alleged Russian election hacking). But I'm curious if anyone really going to up and accuse Trump and his supporters of "planting" a live gun on the set of Alec Baldwin's movie. That's definitely some tin foil hat material right there:

    Twitter blue check floats Trump supporter set-up Baldwin with loaded gun for revenge (bizpacreview.com)

    The Internet never lets you down.

    It only took one tweet by a ‘blue check’ to turn a tragic incident into a drama-filled Twitter thread filled with head-scratching conspiratorial nonsense.

    Early Friday BizPac Review reported that actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer and injured a director with a prop gun accidentally loaded with a live round.

    However, Johannes Velterop, whose Twitter bio describes him as an “Internationalist,” “EU Citizen,” and “ex-UK resident” took tragedy to another level and suggested that Baldwin’s prop gun had been secretly loaded with real bullets by a Trump supporter as a means to punish the actor for his Donald Trump parodies on Saturday Night Live.
     
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    Twitter isn't news. They didn't even bother finding out who the guy is, they literally just wrote a couple of paragraphs then hot-linked a semi-random selection of tweets.

    I mean, it was a stupid post, but loads of people say (and post on the internet) stupid things all the time.
     
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    According to trumpers if it's printed it's true!! :)
     
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    Last year someone put a Trump 2020 sticker on a bears tracking collar and a forumite insisted that Trump had personally flown to North Carolina, and wandered through the forrest to put the sticker on the bears collar.
     
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    That's ridiculous. We're at a point where a solar flare would be blamed on Donald Trump or his supporters.
     
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    that is ridiculous. everybody knows that trump would not have gone to the bear, rather.,...

    "the big hairy grizzly walked up , with a tear in his eye, and said "sir, please put a sticker on my gps tracking collar, because all of us bears love what you are doiong to make america great again ...'"
     
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    That's just silly, everyone knows bears vote Democratic....
     
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    baldwin does seem to have missed a few of these "firearms safety" classes that, oh, what's that? those classes aren't required? well, "thoughts and prayers."

    always regard every firearm as being loaded. never point a gun at anything that you don't want to shoot.

    i can not believe that no one has the job of making sure the guns are loaded with blanks, but baldwin should have checked personally.
     
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    It's IMOSSIBLE to load a weapon "accidentally". There shouldn't even be any live rounds in studios jest for this reason.

    Secondly, there are 15,000,000 ways to exact revenge and being on a closed lot, scurrying around to find *the* weapon Baldwin would be given, loading it with one live round and clicking one's heels three times that Baldwin would pick it and somehow engage the trigger hitting two people, killing one and injuring aother. is demonstratively asinine.

    I am more inclined to believe the Big Lie than I do this and I don't believe an ounce of that nonsense. It's actually too stupid to even discuss.
     
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    Conspiracy theorists claim that Alec Baldwin's shooting accident was "set up by Trump supporters"

    Wrong - it was Vladimir Putin.
     
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    The dreaded NRA teaches that the pistol should have been checked every time it changed hands and other circumstances where the weapon could have become loaded. For example, if the weapon is laid down, it should be checked for a live round when it is picked up.

    Alex Baldwin is ultimately responsible because he should have checked the weapon for a live round.
     
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    Let's wait to see what the investigation reveals.

    The left uses school shootings to push for gun control minutes after the incident.

    Some on the right tried to make this a Baldwin hypocrisy issue too fast.

    Now the left has a "theory."

    Somehow I do not think Hollywood movie crews are stacked with homicidal trump supporters....
     
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    nra or not, these safety measures must be learned and complied with by everyone handling weapons, even in the movies.
     
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    Relax. Conspiracy theories don't have the same effect on non-Trump supporters that it has on Trump supporters. Unlike Trump followers, we expect actual evidence, before we give credibility to a conspiracy.
     
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    Remind me of the Trump years again.. Oh ya it was any "Unnamed, secrete, or protected sources" made popular by the leftist media and their adoring fans ;)
     
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    Or don't allow Hollywood leftist to play with things they don't understand..
     
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    Well all that aside and no print needed, a person was fatally shot by a left wing actor because he was to dumb to be around a firearm let alone hold it.. Everyone knows, Mattel invented nerf and plastic guns for those folks!!
     
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    Just more BS as usual.

    Regardless of what happened up to that point, Alex Baldwin was the last person to touch that gun and that makes him ultimately responsible.
     
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    Except it happened.
     
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    You get a "like" because that was my first LOL today.

    To THIS day, I still don't understand how they can deny racism, sexism and homophobia exists (while espousing those views) with incredible mountains of evidence and believe a complete lie with NONE. If you take Orange Jesus, Powell and Rudy from the equation...there's a line as long as this country is wide of people on the right, left, middle, upside, downside that have put their own jobs, reputations and lives on the line to publicly state there is no evidence for widespread election fraud. Quite frankly, it's kinda scary that so many alleged adults with no known cognitive disorders would fall in line with this BS.
     
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    These gun control actors are quick to accept a paycheck showing people how to look good shooting others, but they never show people how to clear a weapon. Baldwin spoke out against the NRA, which puts out gun safety productions.

    No one planted ignorance.
     
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    The left wing actor obviously was not a gun owner or he would not have been stupid enough to trust some flunky on the set telling him the gun was "cold" without double checking as soon as it was handed to him.
     
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    Not true. MSNBC most often was interviewing the source on screen. If not that, at least naming the source.
     
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    Yes, they think that the right to bear arms should rather be rephrased as the right to arm bears.
     
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    Baldwin is an idiot. No conspiracy theory needed...
     
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