Death on a Movie Set: Ex-Prosecutors, Attorneys React to Alec Baldwin’s Shocking Prop Gun Shooting Accident

MSN News ^ | October 21, 2021 | Aaron Keller

[Sans-Culotte]

If it had happened on Murder, She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher would have been on set visiting someone involved in the production, or they would have been filming one of her novels. However, the victim would probably have to be some sort of tyrannical fat producer who smokes cigars.

[Navy Patriot]

LOL!

[eastforker]

This might be making more sense. If the union guys walked out and the non union came in, who is to say, or not say, that a union hand might have slipped some live ammo onto the set. Union hands can get quite serious.

[CedarDave]

This item from another thread, unsourced but sounds like something Baldwin would say and do:

If verified, Baldwin may be toast (involuntary manslaughter?).

[LibWhacker]

If you’d asked me before this which Hollywood douche would be the next one to kill someone it would’ve been him.

Watch them go easy on him.

Might as well give them all licenses to kill.

[OKSooner]

Oh really. Well that’s interesting.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Or a Colt replica. Would make sense for a period piece. More than likely a .45

[FreedomPoster]

Someone in another thread suggested Perry Mason or Columbo.

[Hildy]

No he is not. He’s an actor. He depends on a prop manager to give him the right gun. It is not his job to make sure it wasn’t loaded. Now, if it was a gun he brought from home that would be another story. Baldwin really has no liability in this and he shouldn’t. The prop master is another story.

[cuban leaf]

I have to admit that I don’t understand how a live round can get into a prop gun. Then again, it’s technically possible, but it’s not plausible.

The safest gun movies are sci-fi movies that use lasers and phasers. None of those actually have “live ammo”. 😜

[bhl]

I forgot that sometimes you point a gun at the camera. Good point. I hope that was what it was an not him completely clowning around.

I miss the Trump Curse but I wouldn’t wish his situation on anyone.

[Navy Patriot]

Isn’t the person in possession of a firearm responsible for the safety of that firearm?

Yes, if you're one of the Peon Surfs like me.

There are different rules for the Intellectual Ruling Elite Superiors.

All animals are equal, but some animals are More Equal than others.

[kvanbrunt2]

I think Brandon Lee killed himself with a blank load.

[mmichaels1970]

However, the victim would probably have to be some sort of tyrannical fat producer who smokes cigars.

Yes! Wearing a very large hat!

[FreedomPoster]

[cuban leaf]

Part of me wants to partly blame him, but then, would you blame a race car driver if a part fails, causing him to careen into a crowd, killing someone. Sometimes there needs to be a responsible party for verifying safety. That person should go to prison in this case. But I don’t think it’s Baldwin.

And this was an independent film. They may have been sloppy. “Hey, joe has a glock in his glove box. Get it out and throw a few blanks in it.”

Everybody forgets the one in the chamber. e.g. Terry Kath.

[Rowdyone]

I’m no lover of the scumbag Baldwin. But in all fairness why did set security and the prop master not ensure before use that there were no live rounds on the set? Their liability insurance carriers will be asking the same question before canceling their insurance and both security and prop master will find it very difficult to get insured again.

[frogjerk]

No, someone shot him. John Eric Hexun (?) shot himself screwing around

[Tommy Revolts]

Manslaughter. Or in the case of Alec Baldwin, Peopleslaughter.