As the producer, he had too much responsibility to his investors to be so personally reckless. He may have been in over his head as a producer, he may have been stressed by the labor issues, but he must have known that killing someone on the set is a career-breaker.
No, I don't think even he would do something like that.
That's a leap too far for me.
-PJ
However, if he thought it was just a blank, he might have felt it was “safe” to do that.
Remember, the staff person responsible for those guns yelled out loud while handing it to Baldwin that it was a “cold” gun.
There were already issues with “cold” guns on the set, so who knows what Baldwin or anybody else was thinking.
The “devils” argument is that people sometimes think they can get away with stuff they normally wouldn’t. The crook always thinks he is smarter than the detective, and I know Baldwin always thinks he is smarter than anyone else.