Herrera can be factually informative where he’s qualified and mildly clever when he wants to, but he often falls into pandering to his audience, and he knows, right now, what that audience wants is hur hur let’s mock and judge Baldwin hur hur hur and the gun-ignorant Hollywood libs hur hur let’s have another White Claw hur hur hur.
So yeah, he could have saved 10 to 15 minutes there.
Yeah, that seems right to me, that he really has no subjective recollection of having his finger on the trigger — even if that was the fact. Which is not something that would surprise me, in such a shock, that in his mind there were an honest to goodness proprioceptive blank between pulling gun from holster and standing there with ears ringing, smoke in the air, and OMG Halyna’s down!
He, and we, and everyone, need to be reminded, that making a mistake that has dire consequences, especially when you were counting on others to backstop you, does NOT make someone evil or immoral.