A shitty situation that he could have avoided by not playing fast and loose with the firearm safety rules that every new shooter has drilled into their heads.
I hate Baldwin but I agree with you. If this is truly an accident, ruining two lives isn't really the way to go. I think he should lose in civil court and owe money to the estate of the person he killed but criminal charges are a bit much even if they are technically legally deserved. I just put myself in his shoes and realize it's something I might have done. If I did it I wouldn't want this punishment so not a good punishment from my perspective. The real person at fault is the person who handed him the gun. That's their job and their one and only job to make sure the gun is safe when they hand it to Baldwin.
Aka criminally negligent homicide. At some point it's been checked enough that not checking again isn't negligent.
It's not the actor's job to check the right kind and amount of explosives are in a squib, or the glass window is actually sugar, or whatever else safety related.
Apparently the live rounds looked just like the dummy rounds (which seems dumb) so I'm not sure how an actor would even know if the gun would go off or not.
That's impossible. Blank rounds are quite obvious - it's a shell casing crimped closed and sealed. There's no bullet.
And if it's loaded with blanks, you don't fuck around and fire them at someone as a joke.
Also, basic firearm safety is to always check a gun handed to you. No matter how long the chain there is no "checked enough" before it has been checked by you.
These are simple tools. Nothing about gun safety is difficult to a sober adult.
So you would have actors handed a gun in the scene stop to check the ammo and then have editing and digital effects remove that in post? That's insane.
Obviously there's a point past which you don't check it any more. That's why always checking is "basic" firearm safety and not "movie production firearm safety".
I'm basing what I wrote on this article where the armorer defense says there was a live round found in the dummy round (not blanks) box. It would be pretty dumb for them to make this argument if the dummy rounds (not blanks) were color coded and easily distinguishable since that would put even more blame on the armorer.
A shitty situation that he could have avoided by not playing fast and loose with the firearm safety rules that every new shooter has drilled into their heads.
Too bad for him. I'll cheer if that far-left gun-hating Hollywood commie ends up in prison.
I hate Baldwin but I agree with you. If this is truly an accident, ruining two lives isn't really the way to go. I think he should lose in civil court and owe money to the estate of the person he killed but criminal charges are a bit much even if they are technically legally deserved. I just put myself in his shoes and realize it's something I might have done. If I did it I wouldn't want this punishment so not a good punishment from my perspective. The real person at fault is the person who handed him the gun. That's their job and their one and only job to make sure the gun is safe when they hand it to Baldwin.
Aka criminally negligent homicide. At some point it's been checked enough that not checking again isn't negligent.
It's not the actor's job to check the right kind and amount of explosives are in a squib, or the glass window is actually sugar, or whatever else safety related.
Apparently the live rounds looked just like the dummy rounds (which seems dumb) so I'm not sure how an actor would even know if the gun would go off or not.
That's impossible. Blank rounds are quite obvious - it's a shell casing crimped closed and sealed. There's no bullet.
And if it's loaded with blanks, you don't fuck around and fire them at someone as a joke.
Also, basic firearm safety is to always check a gun handed to you. No matter how long the chain there is no "checked enough" before it has been checked by you.
These are simple tools. Nothing about gun safety is difficult to a sober adult.
So you would have actors handed a gun in the scene stop to check the ammo and then have editing and digital effects remove that in post? That's insane.
Obviously there's a point past which you don't check it any more. That's why always checking is "basic" firearm safety and not "movie production firearm safety".
I'm basing what I wrote on this article where the armorer defense says there was a live round found in the dummy round (not blanks) box. It would be pretty dumb for them to make this argument if the dummy rounds (not blanks) were color coded and easily distinguishable since that would put even more blame on the armorer.