Alec Baldwin and the assistant director are definitely at fault - the assistant director shouldn't have had a prop gun on set and Alec Baldwin shouldn't have trusted the assistant director to provide one - but there's more blame to go around than that. Somebody mixed live rounds with the dummy rounds, but we don't have enough information to say whether that was the supplier, the prop assistant, the armourer or the assistant director.
I don't think that's plausible. It would require both premeditation - he'd have to make the conscious choice to obtain live rounds and bring them on set - and an incredible lack of foresight - he'd be unloading and reloading the revolver in plain sight on the set of the movie in which he is both star and producer, all so he can frame himself for the crime.
Alec Baldwin and the assistant director are definitely at fault - the assistant director shouldn't have had a prop gun on set and Alec Baldwin shouldn't have trusted the assistant director to provide one - but there's more blame to go around than that. Somebody mixed live rounds with the dummy rounds, but we don't have enough information to say whether that was the supplier, the prop assistant, the armourer or the assistant director.
Or Baldwin himself, for that matter.
I don't think that's plausible. It would require both premeditation - he'd have to make the conscious choice to obtain live rounds and bring them on set - and an incredible lack of foresight - he'd be unloading and reloading the revolver in plain sight on the set of the movie in which he is both star and producer, all so he can frame himself for the crime.
Agreed that it's extremely unlikely, but the point is that nobody knows enough of anything to rule it out yet.