Baldwin could have — if he’d taken a basic NRA gun safety course — easily checked the weapon and determined if it was loaded or not.
Gross negligence to fire a weapon and rely on others to tell you it’s not loaded.
Absolutely. Since he was also the producer of the movie, he likely got rid of a Safety Officer to "save" costs.
...you are spot on....! I took a basic NRA gun safety course quite a number of years ago, right after Odumbo was nominated to be the Dem candidate for the Presidency, and right after I bought my first gun....was worth every minute of the course. Of course, to Baldwin, such course, as well as guns themselves, are for the great unwashed, the knuckle-draggers within our society.......
“Baldwin could have — if he’d taken a basic NRA gun safety course — easily checked the weapon and determined if it was loaded or not.”
Checking if a single action is loaded with only blanks is not difficult. But time consuming. It requires completely unloading and reloading the firearm.
I agree with your point and am a member of the NRA and have participated in safety courses. I believe that the training that the the NRA provides is very helpful. But revolvers are the easiest guns to determine whether they are loaded or not. You don't need a "safety course" to figure it out. Any amount of basic familiarity with the gun in question is all that people who are not complete idiots actually need.
This was criminal negligence on Baldwin's part especially in his role as the producer that was onscene and in charge of the entire fiasco where people walked off the job after two “accidental discharges” the day before. If Baldwin does not have to answer for this in court then we will know New Mexico's justice system is even more screwed up than we thought that it was. Given his political leanings either the governor of New Mexico or President Biden will likely intercede at some point on his behalf if a judge or jury actually gives him prison time of more than a month or two.
IF Arec had been an NRA member he would have known not to point and pull the trigger on fellow cast members.
Friends don't let friends go off full cocked, loaded and fingers on the trigger.
Anger issues? Don't be playing around with guns until you are cool and calm.
Arec, Hollywood has a protocol that would have prevented this. Why did you go out of your way to circumvent it?
People need to learn to ride a horse for most westerns. That’s a lot more involved than basic gun safety.