Posted on 10/24/2021 1:39:07 PM PDT by Rokke
Probably.
Someone hands you a weapon, the assumption should always be that it is loaded.
Life is not a movie.
Alec Baldwin shot her knowingly in cold blood!
How’s them apple’s?
“In the US military, if you negligently fire a round and kill someone, you will be charged with murder. If you negligently fire a round causing no injury at all, and you are in a special operations unit, there is a good chance you will be kicked out of the unit. Would you trust a pilot who forgets to drop landing gear?”
From the article. And true. But also true for non-military. There was gross negligence here. That’s not a simple accident.
Has anyone here previously read of the incident being labeled a “misfire?” I haven’t.
Yes, I saw where it was labeled as a "misfire". Written by a leftist idiot who knows nothing about firearms and couldn't tell the difference between a hangfire and a hangnail, let alone a misfire.
Do a Google search for Alec Baldwin misfire. It’s everywhere.
Why would he point the gun at her in the first place, even so she had no part in the movie and then pulled the trigger twice was he just showing off and fooling around? Even so in my opinion he is just an ignorant, hypocritical, blow hard actor, like most of them are there is no reason why he couldn’t have looked and checked what this six shooter was loaded with.
In case of a revolver quite easy to do and when the cartridges looked suspiciously like the real thing he should have said “Wait a minute and lets find out” Well maybe I am asking too much. But when it comes to guns, the first mistake also could easily be the last one. And by the way I have nothing against guns and have been shooting and re-loading for the better parts of forty years.
Furthermore, they were having issues with unions. I put nothing past them. Issues like that should have raised the importance of following all safety protocols. Check, double check, maybe even cancel. All live rounds should have been removed from the set. There should have been a zero tolerance for them. Remember, Baldwin wasn't just an actor, he was a producer. These responsibilites fall to him.
Whoever was the armorer Iis responsible...
And I doubt any movie insurance company will ever deal with Baldwin as a producer again.
Hand me a firearm and the second I take possession of it, I’m responsible for everything it does. It’s not the piece of metal. It’s the person who pulls the trigger.
I looked and, yes, it is out there in a few places, all right. Mostly just in the headline, but even in the body sometimes. SMH
“And I doubt any movie insurance company will ever deal with Baldwin as a producer again. “
For almost every tragedy there is usually a silver lining.
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