Posted on 10/22/2021 4:39:44 PM PDT by Copernicus
Red Flag warning! Blue Bloods Gun Safety Amateur Hour!
David Codrea highlights an incident on the set of Tom Selleck’s television show “Blue Bloods” wherein Mr Selleck chastises a bit player for “waving a real gun around with his finger on the trigger”.
In news reports NRA Director Tom Selleck is cast heroically for his response to the extra’s faux pas.
Aside from the well established notion it is bad juju to publicly humiliate “the little people” the larger point should not be ignored as well: if you have joined a ship of fools about to wreck in the shoals it may make you feeeeel better to yell at the cabin boy but it sure will not keep the ship from capsizing!
As one message board commentator observed– it was the worst kind of Hollywood celebrity prima donna temper tantrum–all sound and fury with no productive outcome.
Yes, hardly a poster boy for on-screen displays of gun safety, hero Selleck has pretty big feet of clay. At the end of the day he is just one more Hollyweird drama queen who does not know squat about which he rants.
Finger on the trigger when he slaps in the magazine! Good thing the slide was not locked back!
If the situation on his show has gotten to the point an extra in costume is “waving a gun around” many, many highly paid staffers failed in their appointed duties before the extra even auditioned for the role.
While Mr. Selleck was correct to react with alacrity, his fury more properly is, and ought to be, directed toward both the prop master and producer of his show.
This is a clear-cut case of Pot. Kettle. Black.
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There’s several versions but the short story is the remains of a dummy round was in the gun barrel and no one cleared it before loading a blank. It killed him.
The second prop-gun killing of 2021.
Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?
No. Brando was killed by a dummy round that I believe sheared off and hit him in the gut severing an artery.
The one you are thinking of is Jon Erik Huxum. He was playing with a gun and had unloaded all but one blank round, spun it, and simulating Russian roulette, he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger, and the blank paper wad went through his temple and killed him.
Pretty good retrospective of Bruce Lee’s Career that helps explain the environment of film making that defined martial art movies in the 20th Century. Cause of death is almost not relevant at the end because the story of his career is covered in a no nonsense way. Highly recommended. Brandon Lee’s death occurred, of course, in the Bolshevik Utopia of North Carolina- Hollywood East.
Warmest regards,
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Yup. Rules for we but not for theys. Kinda of makes you want to do something crazy like take off your mask or something.
As I’ve told my children and grandchildren, if you’re ever in a situation where there’s a gun and individuals who don’t respect firearms, LEAVE. Don’t try to educate, just leave.
too funny:
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Might the prop gun have been secretly loaded with real bullets by a Trump supporter, to punish Alec Baldwin for his Trump parodies? Should be a line of inquiry.
“Bolshevik Utopia of North Carolina- Hollywood East.”
As an NC native first time I have heard that though I have heard Research Triangle Park called Silicon Valley East.
My question is why was there ANY live ammo on the set?
Why not use the source?
simple. i wasnt reading that site
Yup. But then again no movies would ever get made. But then again after that maybe no movies would not be such a bad thing.
Seems like I have read about this somewhere:
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth
Excuse for more gun control?
You never heard Chapel Hill referred to as University of Berserkely East?
“simple. i wasnt reading that site”
Obviously you didn’t read the tmz site, either.
Vic Morrow?
feel free to follow me and go source all the article details and provide the links. i dont do it
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