This has the same energy as, technically officer, i didn't shoot him, i just aimed at him and pulled the trigger. After that point the bullet just did its thing. Go blame the bullet.

When it comes to responsibility, usually we consider a person intentionally doing something that they reasonably believe will have some consequence as responsible for that consequence. Especially when the primary reason they took the action was to generate the consequence. Excuces of the form "Technically i didn't do it, i just knowingly did something for the explicit purpose of triggering some downstream consequence" generally do not fly.