I am no fan of Alec Baldwin. But these criminal charges specific to the death are just wrong. The slippery slope alone should scare every blue collar worker that makes a mistake (i.e. the HVAC guy that fails to prevent a CO leak, the electrician that fails to prevent a short) resulting in a death goes to jail now? Put your brain on this and everyone can come up with a tragic circumstance because of an accident.
Oh come on Guido - he fired a gun at her! Yeah, yeah, it was a prop gun allegedly loaded with blanks... until it wasn’t.
> HVAC guy that fails to prevent a CO leak... <
Then the question becomes why was the leak not prevented. Sometimes stuff just happens. Then it’s a civil case, at most. But sometimes the person is grossly negligent. For example, maybe the HVAC guy used the wrong part because he was too lazy to check the specs.
Baldwin was grossly negligent. The charge is appropriate. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Your attempted comparison is absurd.
There is a difference between a worker who in the course of doing his job overlooks or doesn’t catch something that results in a death, and one who recklessly points a firearm at another human resulting in death.
Not quite the same example as pointing a loaded gun at someone and pulling the trigger.
Enh. Let him sweat charges. He can afford the attorneys, and his main crime is being an arrogant turd. Pass the popcorn.
Aside from that, it’s basic gun safety that when somebody hands you a gun, you open the action and make sure it’s not loaded, especially before pointing at someone, which should never be done, and putting your finger on the trigger. And the armorer should have given it to him with the action open anyway. Both he and his moronic armorer deserve all the grief that’ll be coming their way.
There is such a thing as negligent homicide—always has been.
The details matter in each case—what is the reasonable care that should have been taken given all the circumstances.
If an electrician is drinking on the job and then botches the job so badly that customers get electrocuted then that should be negligent homicide.