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[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.[b]  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]

But....what if you are shooting a scene for a movie or tv show?  Still you should never point a gun at a person?  How do you think all of those movies and tv shows were filmed?

And who said he pointed the gun at anybody?[/quote]

Movie scenes are usually cut so that the actors don't point at each other with live blanks.  So, it might be shot with a prop gun (a gun that is not capable of firing), and them pointing at each other, but the scene with the blank is cut so that they aren't pointing the actual gun at someone.

But all that is irrelevant.  He didn't shoot another actor.

How do you shoot someone if the gun isn't pointing at them?  Of course the gun was pointed at her. [/quote]

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