I agree with most of what you said, but I put an "asterisk" on "he was lying" bit on the interview.
He probably should have never done that interview and should have known that was, I dunno, like putting the Defendant on the witness stand. It just opened him up to answer questions and to be judged on those answers.
I'm willing to give him some benefit of the doubt that he didn't intentionally pull the trigger in order to fire even what he believed to be an empty gun. (Meaning he would have only been expecting to hear a "click" when pulling the trigger.) Because it seems that there's a "possibility" that gun could have been fired without the trigger being intentionally pulled all the way if some part of the cock, firing mechanism, or some other aspect of the gun was malfunctioning.
Should he have checked that the gun was actually unloaded when it was handed to him? Yes.
Should he have refused to point the gun in the direction of crew even if it wasn't in the script for him to fire it and he thought the gun was unloaded? Yes.
But, more than all of that it seems the protocols for gun handling on a set were all ignored and -as you said- someone part of that gun-handling group handed him the gun and told him it was "cold."
There's a lot of blame to go around, including towards Bladwin.
But, in the end, I stand by my ultimate point.
This much fuss wouldn't be riled up over this accident if it didn't involve Baldwin.
And, more so, it was just that.
An accident.
ETA:
You point out in the post at the top of the previous page that had the firearm been defective the investigators would've have found out right away. And, for all we know, they have. But they're not required to tell us everything they know particularly if they're still carrying out an investigation.
It's hard to say the gun and it's safety mechanisms were in perfect working order simply because the investigators haven't came out and told us they weren't. They still need to finish their investigation.
Let's let it get carried out. If they tell us the gun was working perfectly, fine, we'll call Baldwin a liar when he says he didn't pull the trigger. (I'd still wonder if it's possible for him to not consciously pull the trigger but still "pull it" with some unconscious action or reflex of the action on the gun was gentle enough it didn't take much to pull the trigger.) There's a lot of unknowns here, so it's just hard to flat out say Baldwin is lying.
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