Anyone that forgets this needs a boot up the arse - including Yours Truly. I thought, “Baldwin is a thespian, not a gunnie - and is therefore innocent of any wrong doing. Gun safety isn’t his job…”
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. If ASM passes me a gun and I shoot Quartermain with it by accident, I am going to jail - and rightfully so. He should check the gun before handing it off to me. The second he passes me that gun, the onus is on me to check it - again - regardless of whether he says it’s unloaded or not. If I check the gun, play with it, and pass it to Quartermain… he MUST check it too - even if I just did it right in front of him. When ASM goes to put that gun away for a time he will check it again - even if he had eyes on us the entire time. It sounds like paranoia, but it is just good gunny etiquette. It is the required protocol for anyone that handles a gun. Anybody handling a gun should be aware of this… and if ignorance is no excuse for us… Nor should it be for Baldwin. At some point, that guy has probably had some basic firearms training, and he screwed the pooch and killed someone. He should draw the same punishment you or I would get - assuming our courts were run by men, and not kangaroos. Oh well. Fortunately he only killed another Hollywood moron, and she looks to be just another fart sucking liberal. I suppose at the end of the day it’s all good, HAR HAR HAR!😆👍
It’s a great time to consciously look at your own safety habits, and make sure they are up to snuff. Look at not only your own, but those of folk around you too. Bad habits creep up on ya… and getting bitten by them on the range or worse - in the house… is something we all want to avoid.
When the kids were little, I was pretty active in competition shooting. We'd hit the big gun show every quarter at the Astro Dome Convention Center. It had 16,000 feet of tables. I'd walk all of it.
ReplyDeleteI had the kids with me once, and someone picked up a revolver, promptly put his finger in the guard, and muzzle swept the seller. My 6 year old son burst out with, "Don't put your finger on the trigger until ready to shoot, and watch your muzzle discipline, you just pointed at that guy!" The groper's blush said it all, and I was right proud. Still am.
If a little guy can get it, why can't an arrogant sheiskopf like AB get it?
That's where I'm at. If you can't properly use the tool, don't touch it. Gun, knife, any type of powered saw, electricity, vehicle... It is not the fault of the tool, but the operator. As far as I'm concerned AB belongs in jail and his wealth needs to take care of the people he injured with his misuse of the tool he was operating.
DeleteI watched a video on Fox about the Baldwin shooting. They had a film set armorer and a talking headette discussing the shooting.
ReplyDeleteThe gun in the incident was a single action revolver, gate loaded. It was the real deal - something you'd take to the range. I noted two things:
1) The prop guns that fire blanks are set up such that a live round won't fit into the cylinder. The revolver will only accept blank rounds - which can still be deadly, but only at short range.
2) Trying to get the talking headette to understand just what the everlasting fuck was going on was impossible. She had the same expression as a six year old short bus passenger listening to a lecture on advanced calculus.
I suppose that Baldwin could be charged with negligent homicide unless someone can prove that the shooting was deliberate. The argument that Baldwin is distraught is belied by the fact that he's an actor by profession. That leaves motive - did Baldwin have motive enough to murder someone?
Everything that could be screwed up was screwed up, and it all boils down to a large group of incompetent boobs playing with firearms. Any other type of industry would have twenty OSHA inspector inspecting everything, including looking up asses, and the fines would bankrupt a small company.
ReplyDeleteI see where they busted the " Not Fucking Around Coalition " leader . Apparently he was fucking around . Maybe help to take the Baldwin fiasco out of the headlines so the liberal Arizona prosecutor can make sure poor little Alex gets off scott free .
ReplyDeleteI was under the impression this happened outside of Santa Fe which is in New Mexico. If it happened around the movie set of Old Tucson then we are talking Arizona. So where did it happen?
DeleteA while back Baldwin was pretty indignant and cruel about a police officer, in the line of duty, accidentally shooting someone. Claimed he couldn't understand how someone could "accidentally" shoot someone; I wonder if he still feels the same way?
ReplyDeletedemocrats are not responsible even if they are supposed to be responsible. Just ask them. Everything in their lives just happens to them because of bad luck. They make no differentiation of the hard life for the stupid because they do not know any better.
ReplyDeleteHell, I barely trust meself, double and triple check shit, why the fark would I trust "you"? Cap gun, bb gun, rubber band gun, if I didn't load it, or actually watch it being loaded with ammo I handed you, I'm not going to fire it. Plenty of blame to go around on this one. Crystal ball says Baldwin gets a pass. Might cost him a few bucks, but he'll certainly never see the inside of a jail, and likely not the inside of a courtroom. At least not as a defendant. Bet you'll never see him use a gun in a movie again.
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