[TW: Beanie Man] Alec Baldwin NUKES Twitter Account
(www.youtube.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (18)
sorted by:
Confession of what? The person handling the gun was incompetent.
Was he really supposed to check it over to make sure the diversity hire could do her job properly?
Surely if you get hired, you're assumed to be good enough.
So if she was a diversity hire...
And he hired her...
Last time I checked, he's an actor, not a director.
People just want to throw the book at him because of his shit Trump impressions.
I hate him too, but blame has to land on the person who prepared the weapon.
You are correct, he wasn't the director. But, given that (in addition to being the lead actor) he was also involved with the story of the film, was one of the producers and described the film as a passion project of his Baldwin was incredibly heavily involved in it.
Given that there had been several gun safety issues previously on the set, yes. Given that some reports (don't know if they are confirmed or not) say that crew were using that gun - and others - for shooting cans during lunch right before the shooting, yes. Given that they were using a gun capable of actually firing, yes.
Oh, and he could also have just followed gun safety 101, which includes things such as "never point the gun at someone unless you're willing to shoot him", "always check your backstop" and "don't pull the damn trigger unless you're comfortable destroying whatever the gun is pointing at"
I'll agree that, by all accounts, the armorer was sloppy if not incompetent. Does she deserve some of the blame? Quite possibly. But, even if the live round was entirely her screw-up, what Baldwin did should never have been done. There is ZERO reason to ever point a gun at someone's chest and pull the trigger unless you want that person dead.
You seem to be being very loud that you don't know how movies work.
Both can be liable for the same incident. People make a stink about people like Alec Baldwin because there's always a subtle expectation that they'll get a lesser sentence than they deserve if not let off entirely because of their status. By the sound of it, Alec was likely criminally negligent at best.
Actually, by law, if you do not independently verify that the gun is cleared and end up shooting someone you are liable. This is why he fake cried and said he never pulled the trigger in his media appearance. He wants you to believe the gun just went off without action on his part.
"Stupid Gun" - Alec Baldwin, Life is Strange
Yes, you fuckwit. It's number 1 rule of handling a weapon. Always assume that it's loaded. What is wrong with you?
Of course it'll be loaded, they're using blanks on set.
What I mean is, is he actually expected to know how to tell blanks from live rounds?
The person handling the gun was the assistant director, not the armourer.