I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, other people were clearly to blame, but I struggle with the idea that the person with the gun in his hand had zero culpability or responsibility to follow firearm rules. He had worked with firearms on a great many movie sets before, with experienced armorers who knew the way things should be done. He would probably have known how to check the cylinder of a revolver, but from that photo of the blank rounds with the live round that stood out, it might not have been easy to spot the live round actually In the cylinder as it might not have looked much different. But the ordinary safety rule is to treat every gun as though it is loaded and live, even if you know for a fact that it isn’t! I have read advice for actors that they should slightly ‘aim off’, so it looks like they are pointing a gun at somebody but if the gun actually went off, it would miss them. I don’t know how widely known that advice is, or if Alec Baldwin would have heard it, but it seems sensible to me. But whatever, Baldwin’s charges were rightly dismissed because the prosecution screwed up. I can see his point of view that it shouldn’t have been any of his responsibility, and I can imagine how terrible it would have been when he was handling what he thought was the equivalent of a toy gun and it killed somebody. I don’t dislike the guy, but I just think that maybe he should have had a different mindset in that moment.
I have mixed feelings about this. Yes, other people were clearly to blame, but I struggle with the idea that the person with the gun in his hand had zero culpability or responsibility to follow firearm rules. He had worked with firearms on a great many movie sets before, with experienced armorers who knew the way things should be done. He would probably have known how to check the cylinder of a revolver, but from that photo of the blank rounds with the live round that stood out, it might not have been easy to spot the live round actually In the cylinder as it might not have looked much different. But the ordinary safety rule is to treat every gun as though it is loaded and live, even if you know for a fact that it isn’t! I have read advice for actors that they should slightly ‘aim off’, so it looks like they are pointing a gun at somebody but if the gun actually went off, it would miss them. I don’t know how widely known that advice is, or if Alec Baldwin would have heard it, but it seems sensible to me. But whatever, Baldwin’s charges were rightly dismissed because the prosecution screwed up. I can see his point of view that it shouldn’t have been any of his responsibility, and I can imagine how terrible it would have been when he was handling what he thought was the equivalent of a toy gun and it killed somebody. I don’t dislike the guy, but I just think that maybe he should have had a different mindset in that moment.
i agree w you 100%
@@NiaPhantom It’s really sad what happened and I hope people in the movie industry learned from it.