It’s not if gun safety wasn’t his job.
Consider this example:
* You buy a bottle of aspirin from CVS
* You give one to a friend
* It turns out CVS had sold you cyanide!
* Your friend dies
CVS has 100% of the legal responsibility in this case.
“It’s not if gun safety wasn’t his job.”
If you handle a gun, it is your job.
I have a film degree and have choreographed fights and dealt with issues like gun procedures on a film set. I had a fellow student’s production, of which I was part, shut down over not following gun safety procedures.
I don’t see any reason to ever point a real gun at another person for a film. The sound and look of a gun being fired can be easily added in post. If a real gun is desired for whatever reason, the camera can be set up to give the illusion of the gun being pointed at a person without that person ever being in the line of fire.
This is not giving someone an aspirin. This is handling something that is designed to kill. It requires careful planning and safety precautions.
Balwin was responsible for firing the gun. He was responsible as a producer to hire qualified people. He was responsible to be sure safety concerns were being addressed. There had already been gun safety issues on this set and concerns were ignored. Safety meetings were skipped. Baldwin was all about the Benjamins. A woman died because of his hubris, greed, and reckless disregard for the safety of others.
Your aspirin strawman is not analogous. And you are ignorant of the law in your subsequent posts. NM law is very clear on what negligence and manslaughter are. You wanting to re-assign responsibility to a gun maker or someone other than the person handling the gun does not make a legal argument.