Actor Alec Baldwin shared a post about telling the truth after Matthew Hutchins, the husband of Halyna Hutchins, questioned why he was not taking responsibility for his role in the “Rust” shooting.
“In the same way, Rahula, when anyone feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, they will not do. Thus, Rahula, you should train yourself, ‘I will not tell a deliberate lie, even in jest,'” Baldwin tweeted, quoting Budda.
He added, “In Buddhism, being truthful goes beyond simply not telling lies. It means speaking truthfully and honestly, yes. But it also means using speech to benefit others, and not to use it to benefit only ourselves.”
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During an interview with NBC News’s Hoda Kotb that aired in full on Thursday, Matt Hutchins responded to comments Baldwin made during a December interview with ABC News, as IJR reported.
Matt Hutchins explained, “The idea that the person holding the gun and causing it to discharge is not responsible is absurd to me.”
“I feel that someone is responsible for what happened and I can’t say who that is but I know it’s not me,” Baldwin said in the ABC News interview.
He added, “But gun safety was not the only problem on that set. There were a number of industry standards that were not practiced and there’s multiple responsible parties.”
Hutchins told Kotb he felt “so angry. I was just so angry to see him talk about her death so publicly in such a detailed way and then to not accept any responsibility after having just described killing her.”
Earlier this month, Halyna Hutchins’ family filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Baldwin and others they feel are responsible for her death.
“Halyna Hutchins deserved to live, and the Defendants had the power to prevent her death if they had only held sacrosanct their duty to protect the safety of every individual on a set where firearms were present,” the lawsuit stated.
It continued, “Instead of cutting corners on safety procedures where human lives were at stake, rushing to stay on schedule and ignoring numerous complaints of safety violations.”