I think you're right. The deniability is so plausible in that, "I'm just an actor, I just used the gun they handed me, other people are responsible for making sure only blanks are in it," etc. The rest of us responsible gun owners know that you check to make sure you know exactly how many rounds are in your gun and if it's chambered before you fire it, and if it is, you don't so much as point it at anything you don't want to kill. AND that you are responsible for every bullet that leaves your gun. But since he sits on his high horse and tells the rest of us lowly flyover country people how we shouldn't have any guns, it's making him look pretty damn ignorant at best, and completely involved, responsible and implicated at worst. He's a piece of shit with no soul, so I can see how he can act like someone who "accidentally" shot someone, despite being fully aware of what he was doing.