Donald Trump’s son violently attacks Alec Baldwin to better defend the carrying of weapons – The HuffPost

UNITED STATES – Friends of good taste, go your way. Since October 21, the United States and in particular Hollywood have been in mourning after the death of Halyna Hutchins, killed in a shooting apparently accidental by Alec Baldwin on the set of the western Rust in New Mexico.

A tragedy that left the 63-year-old comedian “devastated”And which has revived the passionate debate on the right to bear arms across the Atlantic, especially on film sets, where real pistols and rifles loaded with blank cartridges are used.

But beyond the tributes to the 42-year-old director of photography and messages of sadness shared within the entertainment industry, the affair also rekindled the anger of the detractors of Alec Baldwin, an actor who has, among other things, shone in recent years by playing a particularly stupid Donald Trump in the parody show “Saturday Night Live”.

“Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin does”

Thus, the eldest son of the former President of the United States, Donald Jr., in recent days has multiplied the publications that ridiculed the drama experienced by Alec Baldwin and the entire team of Rust. And this until selling on his online store a t-shirt available for women like the men and featuring the slogan “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin does” (Guns Don’t Kill People, Alec Baldwin Kills People, in English).

A piece sold for $ 27.99 and that Donald Trump Jr. even staged on social networks by posting a montage in which Alec Baldwin wears the infamous t-shirt (all in a photograph taken by a paparazzi immediately after the drama).

One example among many of the offensive led by supporters of Donald Trump since the accident in Rust to both criticize Alec Baldwin and defend the carrying of weapons, guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, but regularly questioned by the progressive camp in the face of the number of tragedies caused by the circulation of firearms , such as the killings in schools.

A conservative offensive against the actor

Donald Trump Jr. has in this regard shared several memes on his Instagram account, in which Alec Baldwin is accused of a possible desire to “blame his gun” for the drama instead of taking responsibility for it, or which show a Donald Trump pretending to shoot a rifle and who would prepare ”To play Alec Baldwin on ‘Saturday Night Live’”.

A fervent opponent of the anti-immigration measures implemented during the Trump presidency and a supporter of stricter controls on firearms, Alec Baldwin is indeed particularly targeted by thealt-right (the “alternative right”, a term used to describe the pro-Trump extreme right, excessively conservative and partisan in particular of white supremacism, editor’s note) since the events of New Mexico.

Some members of this fringe of the American political class have thus evoked a “fair return of things” for the actor, while others demanded a return of Donald Trump on social networks – from which he has been banned since the assault on the Capitol. – to attend a virtual projection which the billionaire is so fond of.

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