Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He had a gun he thought was not loaded but never bothered to check. Ms. Hutchins was not his rival in a movie gunfight, and he had no need to point the gun at her and pull the trigger. While I don't always trust the FBI, their forensics work is usually first rate. If the FBI s…
Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He had a gun he thought was not loaded but never bothered to check. Ms. Hutchins was not his rival in a movie gunfight, and he had no need to point the gun at her and pull the trigger. While I don't always trust the FBI, their forensics work is usually first rate. If the FBI says the gun would not fire without the trigger being pulled, I believe them. When you point a gun at someone, pull the trigger and kill them, some punishment is in order. No one contends this was murder, but it was an entirely preventable death.
I completely disagree, Bob. An actor on a movie set, having been assured that a gun does not contain real bullets, not only probably couldn't look into the chamber and tell the difference between a live round and a blank, he shouldn't need to do so. It's not his job! Whether or not he actually pulled the trigger is irrelevant to me. I think the charges against him are ludicrous.
For all serious human activities, the same rules apply to actors on movie sets as they do to the rest of us. This whole carve out of responsibility for entertainers of all varieties is just nauseating to hear pleaded for by citizens who think they are responsible.
Movie actors, rock stars, professional athletes... They are not special, and their spaces are not special. We have great and maybe irreparable damage to this body politic, the dignity and responsibility of actual humans, and to our legal system, to allow this kind of puerile, childish nonsense to become common in our adult population. It is why it is disgusting to see adults using analogies and references to mindless entertainments in a discussion of a serious issue.
Whether or not he pulled the trigger is the only thing that matters here. Tell me you don't know anything about handling firearms in a couple more ways.
Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He had a gun he thought was not loaded but never bothered to check. Ms. Hutchins was not his rival in a movie gunfight, and he had no need to point the gun at her and pull the trigger. While I don't always trust the FBI, their forensics work is usually first rate. If the FBI says the gun would not fire without the trigger being pulled, I believe them. When you point a gun at someone, pull the trigger and kill them, some punishment is in order. No one contends this was murder, but it was an entirely preventable death.
I completely disagree, Bob. An actor on a movie set, having been assured that a gun does not contain real bullets, not only probably couldn't look into the chamber and tell the difference between a live round and a blank, he shouldn't need to do so. It's not his job! Whether or not he actually pulled the trigger is irrelevant to me. I think the charges against him are ludicrous.
For all serious human activities, the same rules apply to actors on movie sets as they do to the rest of us. This whole carve out of responsibility for entertainers of all varieties is just nauseating to hear pleaded for by citizens who think they are responsible.
Movie actors, rock stars, professional athletes... They are not special, and their spaces are not special. We have great and maybe irreparable damage to this body politic, the dignity and responsibility of actual humans, and to our legal system, to allow this kind of puerile, childish nonsense to become common in our adult population. It is why it is disgusting to see adults using analogies and references to mindless entertainments in a discussion of a serious issue.
Whether or not he pulled the trigger is the only thing that matters here. Tell me you don't know anything about handling firearms in a couple more ways.
Baldwin can put that on his tombstone. "It was not my job"