Posted on 11/12/2022 2:45:12 PM PST by simpson96
Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit a year after the Rust incident. According to court documents, Baldwin seeks to “clear his name” after the accidental death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of his movie.
People obtained the legal court documents of a cross-complaint filed by the 30 Rock actor. The lawsuit reads, “More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy.” The cross-complaint named on-set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first AD Dave Halls, property master Sarah Zachry, and weapons supplier Seth Kenney, accusing them of negligence. “Baldwin has also lost numerous job opportunities and associated income,” the lawsuit reads. “For example, he’s been fired from multiple jobs expressly because of the incident on Rust and has been passed over for other opportunities, which is a direct result of the negligence of Cross-Defendants Gutierrez-Reed, Halls, Kenney, PDQ, and Zachry.”
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He wants to get off scot free.
In the 4th Californians move to Texas video they are at a gun range and say that the rule to always assume a gun is loaded is now called the Alex Baldwin Rule.
Is the Santa Fe DA ever going to get off her ass ?
But if he merely trespassed in DC two years ago he’d screwed.
First thing I thought of when reading the article. Good rule - easy to live with.
I’d like to see a real life Western where a loathesome egocentric Democrat bastard played by Alec Baldwin says: “I’m a victim of murdering that woman, a victim I say. Killing her has cost me money dammit, and I demand compensation.” Then 10,000 defecating long-horns run over him until nothing is left but an ugly stain on the desert floor. The End.
Wants to clear his name?
Sure, but there’s just the smalll matter of the person you shot dead.
File all the lawsuits you want he’s still an dumb Libtard turd who shot 2 people and tried to squirm out
I think hes one of the main people responsible ultimately because he’s the producer and the actor who pointed it at someone/direction rehearsing when maybe he could have rehearsed the move in a safer way. Hes got executive responsibility and personal negligence aiming it somewhere to test a move out that he could have aimed elsewhere.
That said, actors trust armorers and the other director on site who both cleared the weapon on set before handing it to him. Those two people are responsible as well, especially the armorer.
No actor who has been given a firing prop weapon that he’s seen/heard two other people, one being the armorer, say the weapon is clear, would think has an actual live round in it. Even a blank’s wadding can injure/kill if a person is within 10 feet and hit in certain places. But no way would any actor think after a weapon i handed to him by an armorer and told its clear by 2 people that theres a live round in it. I’d look because I just don’t trust anyone. But I can see most people not doing so.
His name is pure Mudd.
Giving Alec Baldwin a gun, knife or even that lefty pair of safety scissors you always got in kindergarten must be an act of negligence. Looks like he's suing everyone involved other than the producer of the movie.
So tell me again why we have never heard what was actually in that revolver? One live round, six live rounds, five blanks and a live round, six blanks that weren’t really, five live rounds and a blank? what the bleep was in it? It might help to understand just how much of a dumbass Baldy really is?
I'm not sure of the others, but from all accounts the armorer lost chain of custody. It was her most critical priority in that job. Unbelievable that the daughter of one of Hollywood's best known armorers didn't know live ammo was on her set (illegal), nor that many handguns were sitting on a movable tray. She screwed up to the max.
While Baldwin was stupid enough to point and pull the trigger, if I was handed a supposedly safe handgun from a professional armorer, maybe I could make the same mistake.
I know the argument is Baldwin should have checked the weapon and ammo, but how many actors can discern from live ammo and blanks, especially after being handed from the armorer?
Still, he may be guilty of involuntary manslaughter. It wasn't even a real scene being filmed, he was playing around and killed the woman out of stupidity.
his hand aimed the gun.
his eye knew where it was pointed.
his thumb cocked the hammer.
his finger pulled the trigger.
he done made it go bang.
its gonna stick to him worse than a full diaper!!
Much as I think he’s a worthless POS your take is one of the most logical ones here. He won’t get of without some responsibility but he’s not solely responsible.
He killed her on purpose. That is the only thing that makes sense.
I once cleared a Rem 870 after a friend handed it to me, and a shell popped out of the receiver. It apparently had hung up in the magazine. The look on my friend's face was a study.
Ian McCollom, of Forgotten Weapons confessed to one accidental discharge. A museum allowed him to handle a 19th Century, Colt "potato digger" machine gun, chambered in 6mm Lee Navy. It was nonfunctioning, and Ian, being very knowledgeable about firearms, went through the procedure to clear the action, and got it to clear. He then pulled the trigger, to verify that he had restored the weapon to functioning, and its operational status was verified with a bang, as a 100 year old 6mm Lee Navy cartridge, which had been inside the machine gun for many decades, as it went from museum to museum, went off.
If a 19th Century machine gun, chambered in a cartridge not manufactured for nearly a century, displayed in a museum can be loaded, any weapon can be loaded.
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