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Old 10-31-2021, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by collie1228 View Post
My Dad, who taught me gun safety, would have no sympathy for Alec Baldwin. I can still recall him saying "never point a gun (loaded or unloaded) at something you don't want to shoot". Personally, I think Alec is a complete jerk, but in this case, I do have some sympathy for him. But I understand as executive producer, he was involved in the hiring of the apparently incompetent "armor" and the assistant director who called out "cold gun", so Alec has some responsibility here.
As a producer he should be held accountable but as an actor that was not his job to check the gun or guns. That could lead to a lot of problems if individual actors started taking charge of the weapons used on a movie set. Or a television set. They had protocols in place which do work when followed properly.