It is not different. I've used this analogy a few times. If I were at a gun range, and the range safety officer handed me a gun, told me it wasn't loaded, and I shot and killed someone, I would go to jail.

The person responsible is the person holding the firearm. He claims to be a gun expert. He did not check his gun. He knew it was used for real target shooting. "Not my job". Give me a break. Of course it's his job. He ignored all the gun safety rules.

I’m afraid you’re wasting your breath. Some people don’t understand or don’t want to understand what gun safety and responsibility are.

Movie set! It would be a terrible mistake to expect actors on a set to check their guns for real bullets every time they pick up a weapon.

If Baldwin pointed a gun at someone outside of a movie set and it went off he like anyone else should be charged for some kind of crime depending on the circumstances.

To this day, if someone handed me a gun and told me it was unloaded, I'd probably take their word for it - right before I gave it back to them. I know nothing about how to handle firearms, how to open chambers, how to deal with a safety, which kind of firearm has them and which don't, or what they look like. I don't know what it feels like to pull a trigger, or how to properly hold a firearm that I don't plan on shooting.

I wouldn't ever be found at a shooting range. There are more firearms owned by Americans, than there are Americans who own firearms. Millions of Americans don't possess any firearms at all, and have no interest in them. Assuming that "everyone" knows that you have to open a gun to check for ammunition is a pretty horrible assumption. Especially since there are millions of us who have no idea how to even do that and are NOT interested in looking it up to satisfy your argument that we should know.

Baldwin is a firearms expert. Just ask him. Plus if it was your job to know, you would know.

I know we’ve argued this in the past so I’ll stop with this post. Firearm safety doesn’t stop at some imaginary line. If a person doesn’t understand firearm safety they shouldn’t be handling a firearm. If you need to train every actor, producer and production assistant on the set in the safe handling of a firearm so be it. The ultimate responsibility for firearm safety is the person holding the gun. Period.

Why would it be a terrible mistake?
I bet Baldwin will be checking from now on.

You are correct

You are wrong. He Was holding a weapon and he pointed and pulled the trigger on this weapon without taking the trouble to check if it was loaded. Terrible and he should be jailed for it.

On a movie set!

Incorrect nonsense. Zimmerman DID NOT attack anyone... NO where was that false information reported, nor did it come out during the trial...

Those charges were dropped and are irrelevant to the current discussion...

Strange reply to a statement that said one of that...

It "went off"... :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

The location doesn't matter...