[BlueMondaySkipper]

“ Baldwin is undoubtedly a POS, but this isn’t his fault.”

Wrong

ANYONE who handles a gun is responsible for it. It’s a core concept that you assume ALL guns are loaded. He likely outsourced that responsibility to others and because if that someone is now dead.

He’s also the producer, so it will be interesting to learn about the people he hired to handle and prepare the weapons.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

It's starting to look like there were all sorts of problems on this film set. Prop guns are assumed to be NEVER armed with live ammo, and professional crews know the rules and take them seriously. Baldwin made an assumption that this gun was like every other gun he had ever used on a film set. But now, it seems that the producers went with a local, non-union crew, which had been the source of recent complaints. One of the producers? Alec Baldwin.

While the actors generally delegate the care of weapons to a prop master, you can bet they won't be so inattentive in the future. And while I don't expect Baldwin to be charged, this will destroy his career.

[21twelve]

“ANYONE who handles a gun is responsible for it. It’s a core concept that you assume ALL guns are loaded.”

A freeper told the story about how he was at a friend’s house in the basement looking at the friend’s new pistol. The friend unloaded it and put the rounds standing up on the table and they both dry fired it, etc.

The wife calls them up for dinner. Freeper excuses himself to use the downstairs toilet. Comes out a few minutes later and sees the pistol there with the rounds still stacked on the table.

Decides to take a few more dry fires before heading upstairs for dinner. Aims at the water-cooler bottle in the corner. BANG!

His friend for whatever reason had reloaded the pistol with different ammo out of a box and left the other ammo sitting on the table!!

Thank goodness the freeper was only out the cost of a water cooler bottle and a bit of his pride. And will NEVER make that mistake again!