A comment was made about whether or not Baldwin had time to put a live round in the gun.
I’m not Baldwin’s biggest fan but I don’t think anyone really thinks he loaded the gun. That’s accusing him of intentional murder.
Well, sure, but the only conceivable reason Baldwin would have for loading the gun would be if he intended to kill her. It wasn’t his job. It couldn’t have been accidental, he would have had to load it secretly.
His interview claim was that the AD herself asked him to point the gun away from the camera to get a good angle on it. This happened to be at her direction. In the script, Baldwin claims, the scene they were rehearsing called for him to pull back the hammer. That’s when he says the gun “went off” despite the fact that he didn’t pull the trigger.
That may be. But if the AD wanted a better camera angle and if he complied, then maybe it was all just an horribly tragic accident.
It's fine that Baldwin won't face legal issues for what happened, but let's put this in terms that might be easier for the peanut gallery to understand. Instead of a movie set, let's put the situation at a shooting range, where several friends have gone to enjoy a day shooting at paper targets. They've done this many times in the past, and each of them has fired guns before. IOW, they've been around guns and are expected to know how to handle them safely. One of them says he's shooting a video to put on social media about how dangerous guns are and hands his friend a gun loaded (he thinks) with blanks and tells him to pretend to shoot one of the other guys. He proceeds to do so and somebody's dead. Who are we going to blame for the death?It's not a good day to be an Alec Baldwin hater.
Police said the movie director who handed him the prop gun told him it had no bullets in it.
Please no police bashing in this thread. Thank you.
"Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe "cold gun" on the set of his movie "Rust", but the prop gun contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police investigation into the fatal shooting released on Friday."
This is the official apology thread to those who bashed Alec Baldwin.
Warrant: Baldwin didn't know weapon contained live round
Court records show that an assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer.apnews.com
In both situations a person is holding a gun, is going to point it at another human being and pull the trigger. In both situations, the shooter does not intend to harm the other person. In both situations, the shooter has the ultimate responsibility to know what's going to happen when he pulls the trigger. While Baldwin is (IMO) not guilty of murder, the case could certainly be made for negligent homicide. If he doesn't know how to check that a gun isn't loaded with live rounds, he has no business pointing it at someone and pulling the trigger. At the very least, there was a really bad breakdown in safety controls.
I believe you're missing the point, which is that the person who pulls the trigger on a gun when he's pointing it at someone else is the last line of defense in keeping that person alive or killing them. There was a breakdown in safety control on the set where Baldwin did the shooting, but he's the ultimate, final control to check the gun and make sure it's not going to fire a live round. He failed, that's the bottom line. Like I said, I do not for a moment believe he did it on purpose, but I do believe he simply grabbed the gun they gave him and pulled the trigger without making sure he knew what was going to happen, and this is especially egregious because he was pointing the gun at someone else. I think all children should pass a mandatory firearms safety course before graduating high school. If they have to know how to put a condom on a banana, they should know how to render a gun harmless.
