Posted on 10/26/2021 10:22:15 AM PDT by VictimsRightsPro2a
The first rule of gun safety is you don’t point a gun a something unless you intend to shoot it. Even if you believe the gun is unloaded, you don’t point it directly at others.
Alec Baldwin didn’t follow basic gun safety when he accidentally shot his cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42. Anyone who has been to a shooting range would have that drilled into them. And Baldwin, an actor who has been in many movies using guns, must surely have had this explained to him many times.
Since the killing, numerous news stories have come out blaming others on the set for unsafe practices. Headlines read: “Armorer on Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ set once admitted to being ‘nervous’ about abilities,” “Alec Baldwin assistant director had history of unsafe practices, prop maker says,” “‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before fatal shooting,” or “Assistant Director Declared Gun Safe Before Alec Baldwin Fatally Fired It, Affidavit Says.”
But these are lame attempts to protect Baldwin from criminal charges. And that is true despite there being no doubt that Baldwin is genuinely sorry about this tragedy. Indeed, as news reports indicate, he was undoubtedly “inconsolable.” but that doesn’t help him either.
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I wonder if she told him no.
I seriously doubt that it was more than an incompetent bunch of idiots with guns.
...if I had just shot and killed a beautiful young woman accidentally, I would be inconsolable too and would want to just go to the prison and walk in a cell and slam the door behind me for 18 months.
I had a friend that killed a 14 year old girl in a car accident. There was no question it was an accident. But, he NEVER got over it and simply could not function. Most days he tended garden out in the country on a place his dad gave him.
Other than that initial photo, I've yet to see any evidence that Baldwin is genuinely sorry. None of his 'messages' have included any apology; not even an indication that he believes he's at fault.
Oh I did read that Baldwin offered the husband "support". How exactly did he do that? "Hey, I just killed your wife, would you like a shoulder to cry on?"
I hope I'm wrong but Baldwin will probably get off scot free and become even more vile and arrogant than before.
As we all know, Alec Baldwin is an idiot. He should have checked before he holstered the weapon. It is easy enough to do with a revolver.
But the assistant director who handed it to him told him it was a “cold gun” and why shouldn’t Alec Baldwin believe him?
And the armorer laid out the gun for the scene and said it was not loaded. Why shouldn’t the assistant director believe her?
And the armorer (who was hired for looks and family connections, not firearm skills) was told by the crew that it was empty when they turned it back in after plinking with it. (She shouldn’t have believed them under any circumstances - but the what the hell did she know?)
Most actors don’t know a thing about firearms. They have to be shown which end the projectile comes out, how to hold it, how to point it, etc. They can’t really be expected to clear their weapons every time they are handed one. Can you imagine the chaos as magazines are dropped, or, if handed loaded pistols, the round pops out of the chamber, or the contents of a cylinder are dumped all over the sound stage?
Regretfully, I think this is on the assistant director and the armorer. Alec Baldwin is too ignorant to know how to check his own firearm and was simply doing what the script told him to do.
That’s the way I learned it 60 years ago. Still holds true today.
This incident happened on a movie set not a public shooting range. Safety protocols are obviously entirely different and highly specialized. Lott is pontificating on a subject he clearly knows nothing about. This is akin to saying anyone with a drivers license knows the rules of the road then trying to apply those rules to an accident on the NASCAR racing circuit.
We don't know nearly enough to start pointing fingers at the actor or anyone else at this point.
I treat every gun I handle as if it emitted a lethal laser beam from the barrel and that said laser is always on - i.e. treat it like it is always firing. Obviously doesn’t apply when you are actually pointing it at someone for a legit reason
>>Kids are taught to not point a cap gun or bb gun at another person too? Did Alex miss that lesson in his childhood? Oh! That’s right! He hasn’t completed his childhood years yet!
That was my first thought too, *but* (and I don’t know the facts), perhaps the scene called for him to shoot at the camera directly for the scene, and the director was standing right there - unfortunate for her - as much as I would love to see this clown goto jail, not ready to call him responsible quite yet.
New terrorist shout out - Alec Akbahr!
I like the part where Alec Baldwin sits on the board of directors for a gun control group. Now he killed someone with a gun, do they still keep him on the Board of Directors?
I must respectfully disagree.
The safety protocols on movie locations and sets have been rigidly enforced since the Brandon Lee killing thirty years ago.
No one is supposed to point a gun at anther person, ever.
If the script calls for it to look like that’s happening, they set the cameral angle to give that appearance without it actually happening. They’re dead serious about that, Baldwin has been around forever and had received training to that effect, and knew darn well that his actions were unsafe.
There’s no excusing his culpability here. The only way he avoids charges is through influence, which might well happen.
But the fact remains that he showed his characteristic callous disregard for other people’s well being, and he killed a woman as a result.
apparently he violated all four
Did Alex Baldwin cry when he stated ‘he had her blood on his hands’? Was it an emotional appeal for forgiveness?
The more he fawns and fakes sorrow, the more guilty intent I see.
Baldwin was practicing a cross draw when the gun discharged according to reports I have read.
ABC news has posted on Facebook a large diatribe against guns. I have posted several rebuttals on the ABC web site but they keep removing them.
Can’t post on FB as I am in FB jail again. 4 times this year!
I remember a movie about thirty years ago in which some idiot actor is using an Uzi and keeps swinging the muzzle in the direction of the other actors.
Time for all actors to be issued rubber firearms as the CHIPS TV show did.
Know it all pr### knows nothing it seems
Where the not this Sh1tagain guy. Movie sets are not the real world. In the movie industry it is necessary to point and discharge prop guns during filming this happens all the time on movie sets it is a common and necessary part of shooting an action sequence. There are specific safe guards to ensure the props used are cold guns which is the proper and legal term for a movie prop. The safe guard system failed someone didn’t do their protocol steps to ensure that a prop that was twice transferred and confirmed on each transfer was a cold gun when it obviously was not. Stop just stop with the BS gun rules nonsense that only shows the person spewing that have zero Fing clue how the movie industry works.
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