[marktwain]

The comments at the source are good. Here is the best one:

"Tom Selleck’s reaction to a person pointing a real gun at people was entirely correct and justified. The person MISHANDLING the gun was violating the cardinal rule of gun safety: ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. The person violated another rule: Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot. There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for someone to point a gun at someone outside of an emergency situation.

These safety rules are not that difficult, yet morons across the world continue to violate them. If you do not know the safety rules, never handle a firearm."

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Tom’s a class act and his reaction was completely appropriate. Good for him!

[susannah59]

The same idiot writer who implies that Tom Selleck was being unreasonable and pitching a temper fit would have been the first one to have condemned a lack of safety had the moron playing with the gun actually managed to hurt himself or someone else.

I guess there has to be something "wrong" with an actor who actually knows how to responsibly handle a gun and is at least suspected of owning one or an arsenal (more than one gun= an arsenal, in media terms).

Off topic, Tom Selleck still looks pretty darned good, doesn't he!

[trisham]

Selleck is absolutely right. Good for him.

[Rappini]

Tom Selleck did the right thing I think all of us on FR believe he was correct.

[Rappini]

Tom Selleck did the right thing I think all of us on FR believe he was correct, at least those of us who know about guns.

[mom4melody]

There was a young actor a few years ago, Jon Erik something, that killed himself on a TV show set playing with a gun.

[Yaelle]

Good for Tom. Gun safety is paramount. He’s right.

[WKUHilltopper]

Bravo for Selleck!

[William Tell]

There's an important point that I haven't seen addressed on this thread.

By its very nature, the entertainment industry violates gun safety rules all the time. To obtain realism, they use functioning firearms and point them at persons they do not intend to shoot.

Hollywood even has legal exemptions from some of the bans on so-called "assault weapons" and true automatic weapons. They are the elite and no doubt feel no obligation to address the matter more systematically as any other industry would be forced to do.

The "extra" described in the article should have had training which required him to verify the condition of the firearm every time it was picked up, to only pick it up and point it when absolutely necessary to produce the entertainment product, and to never violate the gun safety rules "unnecessarily".

[Uri’el-2012]

Tom, a lifelong gun enthusiast and board member of the National Rifle Association,

Tom Selleck knows the NRA gun handling rules:

Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction

Always keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot

Always keep the gun unloaded until ready to use

[vetvetdoug]

Selleck is right on. Someone playing and pointing a weapon is a danger to everyone. The dumbass extra was lucky he wasn't at a firing range with Marines or professional rangers because this would be justification for a headshot to the one endangering the rest.

[Redcloak]

This story refers to one that originally ran at The National Enquirer. The author of the original, Mike Walker, seems to appreciate Selleck's actions on set. Walker, after calling the extra a "lamebrain" and a "doofus", reports that Selleck gave the entire set a 10-minute lecture on gun safety before allowing filming to continue.

[yarddog]

Not really much controversy here. Selleck is obviously right.

Did anyone ever figure out if Higgins really was Robin Masters?