Honestly, and me trying to be objective—it sounds like a weapon passing through several unqualified sets of hands, and into the hands of an actor who relies on the expertise of SMEs before its handed to him. I don’t know all the facts, but this is what it sounds like so far.
None of that excuses pointing a weapon directly at someone and pulling the trigger. The industry says to point off.
I agree. I have no idea what he was thinking or IF he was thinking.
Clearly: I mean if I were to sneak into a Democrat party event I’d go as a purple haired fat chick. They’d never expect a thing!
At this point what difference does it make?
Some people did some things.
And that makes you one of the “worst people to walk the planet”? Well I guess that’s every 3rd woman you know almost because 1-3 women have been abused by a partner.
I find it amusing that you have dug in on disputing the "worst person" label for Baldwin, yet all the examples you come up with -- Stalin, Hitler, Idi Amin, Ghengis Khan, Xerxes, Caligula, Milosevic, Khaddafi, are DEAD people. Even Baldwin's defenders are apparently hard pressed to name a LIVING person who is clearly worse than him. (I’d have gone with child murdering pedophiles spared execution if I were you.) But I'll throw you a bone: Among the 100 billion or so people who have EVER lived in the past several hundred thousand years, a select hand full have been worse than Alec Baldwin.
AEA and SAG are the two main actors unions. I linked a list of firearm safety protocols from the AEA earlier in the thread. #2 is to treat all firearms as loaded and deadly. If actors do not follow safety protocols, they are violating their own union. Other people may prove to have fault, but Baldwin violated the most important rule and a woman is dead.
This doesn’t change the fact that they should.
To be fair he was right that this thread has nothing to do with Trump and by you bringing him into it you are trolling for a reaction that you know you will get.....thus the term troll.
For the record, I am against anyone on this forum trying to “railroad” Alec Baldwin. Don’t railroad him!
Dick Cheney. There may be others, but definitely Dick Cheney.
I like the way you think, but you can just call me "Mav." "_Mav_" is too formal.
We learn Hitler was worse therefore Alec Baldwin is ok.
I would say that if you are planning on pointing the gun at people, then you’d better make sure it isn’t loaded. If you don’t know how to handle a gun, maybe leave it the f%#k alone until you’ve been given instructions. AB is not some 3 year old kid.
Reports indicate that assistant director Dave Halls told Alec the gun was a “cold gun” without any live ammunition in it but when the actor fired it, a real bullet struck two staff on set. Halls was previously fired from a movie set in 2019 after a crew member was injured by a gun.
So a guy can make a racist comment 25 years ago and his career is over but this guy is involved with an incident where someone was injured with a gun due to his negligence and he continues working? What a stupid time to be alive.
Treat all firearms as loaded and deadly. As the producer, did AB hire the guy?
