It is the ultimate responsibility of the person with the gun in their hand. This incident is proof of that. There is plenty of blame to go around, but the actor doesn’t get a free pass by blaming someone else. If Baldwin practiced the most basic of gun safety the woman would be alive. Saying that he doesn’t have the ultimate responsibility is irresponsible on its face.
A movie set is the exception.
The armourer is responsible.
Visualize a class of kindergarten kids.... That's what the actors are. The armourer is the teacher, and responsible for all of them. You cannot expect actors to know the first thing about gun safety. Just as you can't expect kindergartners to cross a busy highway by themselves.
Rockinbar is 100 % correct.
You can bet the farm that the Santa Fe County Sheriff's homicide detectives are much better informed than we are ... or the rumor mills of Hollywood. They'll be investigating this incident for quite a while as they'll have to talk to multiple witnesses, multiple times.
L.W.
There are no exceptions to gun safety. I can’t believe I am reading that some feel there are exceptions on this site.
It's not designed to be a GUN, it's designed to go bang/pop harmlessly...it's the "pop" gun rifle we had as little kids, cock the lever action and it goes "pop". No live ammo should have been on set, I highly doubt Baldwin stopped at the local gun store and picked up 100 rounds of ammo to bring to the set at 6:30am.
It is not designed to be a gun? Somehow Baldwin tragically shot and killed someone with it.
Rockibbar has already explained this in detail, you just refuse to accept the industry manner of PROP guns on the filming set.
There appear to be only 3 instances of this happening in recent history going back to 1984, and 1 of those was self inflicted. Showing the armouer did his/her job in countless films/TV, this incident somehow becomes the actor's fault while you ignore that live ammo was on the set. According to you all of those countless films/TV shows depicting shooting, the actor was well versed in firearm safety, gun handling, and down range scenarios.
This would of course include such brainiacs as Pam Anderson, Ronda Rousey, Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck, and the list goes on and on.
You are correct. He did explain it and I refuse to accept any exception to gun safety and others in the industry agree with me. I posted a link to a current movie armourer that has the same opinion about gun safety and Baldwin’s lack there of.
