He's, admittedly, a fairly unsympathetic figure. Alec Baldwin, the actor, short-time talk show host, Donald Trump impersonator and longtime blowhard and villain of the right, has said and done some pretty lamentable things over the past few decades. He's been sued for assault in several attacks on paparazzi. He was arrested for punching a man in the face during a parking spot dispute. He's used homophobic slurs, for which he was reportedly fired by MSNBC. And even left scathing voicemail for his then-11-year-old daughter, in which he called her a "rude, thoughtless little pig." His anger issues are well-documented, as is his politics. He alone is to blame for his reputation and public image. He is not to blame, however, for a tragic and horrific accidental shooting on the set of a movie he was working on. (Jim Weber/AP Photo) That's according to witnesses and court documents that describe the incident, in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured. (Authorities say they haven't ruled out charges, but it seems highly unlikely that Baldwin has any true culpability here.) Production has been halted, Baldwin is cooperating fully, and news of ongoing safety complaints and other on-set shooting accidents has opened a startling new conversation about gun safety on film sets. It's an important conversation — as Trevor Noah of "The Daily Show" pointed out, "Hollywood movies love using fake versions of real things for everything, except guns." But for some on the right, Baldwin's tragic accident is an opportunity — a grotesque kind of comeuppance for being, well, a jerk, and more to the point, a jerk who openly supports more gun control. Somehow, to them, it's just too delicious to resist driving home the point that someone who wants to restrict other people's access to firearms has accidentally killed someone with a prop gun. Apparently, they think this is ironic. Don Trump Jr. was quick to mock — and profit off of — the tragedy, posting pro-gun memes and even selling a t-shirt on his website that reads "guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people." To his detractors, Trump had this to say: "Screw all the sanctimony I'm seeing out there. If the shoe was on the other foot Alex [sic] Baldwin would literally be the first person pissing on everybody's grave trying to make a point. F--k him!"