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?
Has anyone here previously read of the incident being labeled a “misfire?” I haven’t.
Whoever was the armorer Iis responsible...
Six years on the murder and three on the shooting felony. He might see his daughter by her high school graduation and new daddy if he lives that long. Via Con Alex.
Also that woke 24-year-old female should be arrested. For reckless homicide. If she let people play with the prop guns after work and go shooting and kept live ammo on the set. She was criminally reckless.
He accidentally loaded it with live rounds, accidentally aimed it at somebody and accidentally pulled the trigger.
What Officer Tatum said was interesting:
If some workers were complaining about the working conditions and a lack of gun safety...
Maybe one of them put in a live round to make a point?
He pointed the gun at someone and pulled the trigger. His fault. It wasn’t even a movie scene, he’s a producer. He’s also incompetent in apparently hiring somebody may be for their hooker looks instead of abilities as an armoror. Quilty, execute him.
Why did he point a gun at someone and pull the trigger? Even if he thought they were blanks.
At a minimum, someone should be charged with criminally negligent homicide (a.k.a., involuntary manslaughter). Someone has to get prison time for that cinematographer’s death.
You never, ever take possession of a firearm without assessing whether it is loaded or clear. It is your responsibility. It doesn't matter what the person handing it to you says. It is on you as soon as you take possession.
When I was in Marine Corps boot camp and we were in our "snapping in" phase, (in which we were just practicing our standing, sitting, kneeling and prone positions), we recruits were still obligated to "clear" our weapons before we raised them into a firing position. Even though the guns were handed back to us by drill instructors. Not doing so every single time was a good way to get kicked out of boot camp.
You also never, ever, aim your gun, loaded or not, at anything you do not intend to kill. That was instilled in us. So even in the snapping in phase, in which we were practicing our positions, we never pulled the rifle up unless it was at a target.
Now this Alec Baldwin actor is an obnoxious loudmouth. Still, he has absolutely no defense in this situation. He was filming a movie, he was handed a firearm, and it was his responsibility to clear the weapon to ensure that it was not loaded.
Why wasn’t he arrested on the spot, it is Standard Procedure in EVERY jurisdiction in the USA, he should already be charged and scrambling for bail.
And Police wonder why Honest Citizens don’t trust them
I’ll throw out the theory that Baldin was secretly filming one of those 80’s snuff films, just so we can hit max Baldwin, having covered every conceivable theory and angle and move onto posting about somthing new...
“Curse of the Gunnies” strikes again. From the 1970s and 1980s.
It is when an anti-gun radical is caught using a firearm to shoot or injure someone.
Perhaps INSTEAD of condemning guns and gun owners, Alec Baldwin should have learned BASIC gun safety! The REALITY is that he pointed a loaded gun at a person and PULLED THE TRIGGER! That is NO “misfire”, the firearm WORKED AS DESIGNED. HE failed to CHECK to ENSURE that it was unloaded. I’ll bet he did not even know HOW to CLEAR it.