He was the executive producer, he knew that procedures were not being followed, he did nothing to correct the situation.
Then he pointed a gun at a person, in violation of any established safety procedure, and he pulled the trigger.
Baldwin is responsible, period.
You keep saying this, and you are WRONG. There are 7 producers listed for the film, and below follows are the listed Executive Producers. You continue to say Baldwin hired the armorer, and yet have zero proof of that either.
"Speaking on behalf of the now shuttered production, Allen Cheney made it known in a statement provided to the press Wednesday that he, along with Emily Salveson and her Streamline Global finance company, “received Executive Producer credit on the film Rust having no involvement with the physical and day to day production,” which is “consistent with financing partners across productions of all sizes.”
