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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Baldwin also gets found guilty and sentenced, but I know he won't. He always gets off clean.[/quote]

I have no love for Baldwin but there is no way I would hold an actor responsible for firing a gun that was supposed to be empty of live ammo, or throwing a dummy grenade that turned out to be real, or stabbing someone with a blade that was supposed to retract. This was a movie set and Hall or the armorer handed him a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to fire. The jury will not convict him. [/quote]
I agree. And I think he pulled the trigger because he didn’t think it was loaded. It was not supposed to be. (I know he says he didn’t pull the trigger). [/quote]

It’s irrelevant whether he said he did or not. He thought the gun had blanks. [/quote]

That's one of the reasons you're supposed to check. Rule #1 of gun safety is to always assume the gun is loaded with live rounds.  The implied task is to prove otherwise. If he had checked the chamber and inspected the rounds, as gun safety rules require, he may have noticed the live rounds.

Where I have trouble is understanding why it's totally fine for Alec to disregard these rules. And per the testimony, he openly ignored the gun safety briefing- sat around texting etc.   And he was a producer, so he was in part responsible for the overall safety of the set.

This wasn't even the first negligent discharge on the set. Most of the crew walked off the set the day prior, and their letter makes a reference to the lack of gun safety. Again, Alec was a producer. Even if he were just an actor on set, he would know he's on an unsafe set with at least one previous instance of a negligent discharge.  Under the circumstances, ignoring his responsibility to check the weapon, not aim it at people, etc, is even more difficult to understand. [/quote]

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