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Well given the nature of our brains I think it is plausible that he believes he did not pull the trigger. He actually when you look at the whole thing and not just the selected portions people tell you is important, can see he was saying he pulled the hammer back and then let it go.
During most of our active shooter Sim-drills in schools Participants will shoot a kid. Not accidentally as in aiming at the shooter but a kid runs in the way, I mean stops, turns, lines up the target and pulls the trigger, and that target is a kid.
Everyone has a degree of disbelief, however some will acknowledge this and work through the process to improve, and some will refuse saying they "would never" shoot a student or that they have been shooting guns for "too long" to make such a mistake etc. Even with video footage, and marking cartridge impacts on the student, they still say it's not possible.
Again, there's video and impact marks, and they still say it never happened. So there is something in our brains that illogically deals with negligent discharge actions.
I think with Baldwin he is either convincing himself that he never pulled the trigger, truly thinks it, or is being counseled to say this by legal or PR advisement. Or he pulled the hammer back like he stated in the interview and somehow that sentence was left out of the discussion.
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