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I disagree. Baldwin had a real gun, and he aimed at a human being. The "I didn't know the gun was loaded" excuse doesn't fly. If you don't know what you are doing, when it comes to firearms, you shouldn't be doing it. Look, he shot his "prop" gun just hours after a mishap with live ammo on his very movie set. Extra caution should have been exercised. Would you point a gun at a living human being just after that had happened? I wouldn't.

I was a construction contractor in a previous life. I was fortunate that no serious accidents happened on any of my sites, but I knew of contractors who did have fatal accidents occur. If someone was killed, OSHA would be all over the site and the contractor would most likely have faced serious fines and penalties. If it had been determined that a serious breach of safety procedures had occurred a few hours earlier, and no steps had been taken to fix the problem - well, you had better lawyer up, because you just might be going to jail. Baldwin was the boss. He should have said "Not one frame of film will be shot until we fix this gun problem." He was in control of the gun, the production, the safety protocols, the hiring and firing of experts - He is 100% at fault.