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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ETA my sentiment about checking a weapon is not to hold Baldwin culpable--just to say that in situations like this, gun safety should be everyone's priority, not just the armorer, because clearly mistakes are made.[/quote]

By this logic, an actor about to drive a car on a movie set should also check the engine before starting the car.[/quote]

Not really.  A gun is used to shoot things such that they are killed or maimed or incapacitated.  Any reasonably cogent and sentient person knows that you don't point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at another person or live being unless you are intending to kill, maim or incapacitate them.  Yet Alec Baldwin did.  That's a problem.  He was holding the gun and he squeezed the trigger while pointing the gun at people.  He, and he alone, is responsible for that.[/quote]

It's not clear that Baldwin pointed the gun at anyone or if it misfired and shot something in an unpredictable direction.  [/quote]

A misfire is when you pull the trigger and the gun does not fire. An accidental discharge is when a gun goes off with no one pulling the trigger. An accidental discharge can happen if a gun is dropped and the safety is off or cracked. Accidental discharges are very, very, rare. This gun did not go off magically, he pulled the trigger.

As far as blame, the person with the gun, is ultimately the one that should be 100% sure it is not loaded. This did not happen in this case. [/quote]

If the gun contained debris from a previous (probably illicit) shooting elsewhere, could AB have seen that if he checked the gun, rather than rely on the safety procedures?[/quote]

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