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I think therein lies the biggest issue with this case. Baldwin is sometimes a crude and obnoxious kook.

Yes, I am sure they can make a gun that will not fire standard bullets. Because of this case I looked it up and they use a real gun because of the weight, nothing appears more real than a real gun and the way the actor holds it, the recoil, etc. While you can get an airsoft gun that appears to be real, the quarter pound plastic gun in no way will be carried or recoil like a 2 pound handgun. Even then in close-up, they are obviously not real. I have bought some Hollywood stunt ammunition for a shotgun to use in police training and in 21 gun salutes and they fit in regular shotguns just like any other round. Nothing looks more real and is carried and functions more real than the real thing. As dangerous as it seems talking about it, there have probably been tens of thousands of sequences filmed with no serious injuries. Heck, there might have been safety protocols in place that would have prevented this incident but maybe those protocols were not followed. We could make all the laws and rules in the world but if somebody doesn’t follow those rules and laws, bad things happen. While Baldwin might not be criminally charged in this case, and there is still that possibility, he was the producer and in ultimate control of everything. In this movie he was not ”just an actor”. He better hope that he has good insurance.

Many or maybe even a majority of prop guns are actual working firearms. The word prop just means used on a movie set. There are even items under Texas law that say that certain things are illegal… unless used for a dramatic interpretation. Basically if it’s a play or a movie, you could even have some illegal items. I have read it before several years ago but I read it again after this case, the death of Brandon Lee. There is a sequence of events that caused his death. Sometimes they use real bullets but hopefully modified by the “expert”. Like when you see a movie where a person is loading a gun, they want it to look like a real bullet. The expert supposedly makes dummy rounds and sometimes puts a primer in the pocket and the actual bullet in the shell casing but not the powder. Then they use the same real shell casing with powder but do not load the bullet and use some kind of wadding to hold the powder in. In the case of Brandon Lee they had a sequence where the gun was shown being loaded and they had a shell with a bullet and a primer but no powder. Unfortunately the actor pull the trigger and the primer was just enough to push the bullet slightly into the barrel. The expert then loaded an actual blank charge with a real shell casing and real primer and powder to make the flash to make it appear that the gun had been fired and when the trigger was pulled with a bullet stuck in the barrel that they did not know about, it was enough to shove the projectile out the barrel and kill Brandon Lee. There are other cases where they actually fire real bullets to break windows and such as that. Maybe they have gotten away from that in recent years but I don’t know. I am sure they will make changes after this tragedy just like they did after Brandon Lee’s death. Anytime they use firearms with real powder and special effects with real explosions, then such things might happen. The me it is like in the other industrial site with certain dangers. Look at the death of the actor Vic Morrow and two children while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie. The special effects explosions caused a helicopter in the scene to crash on top of them, killing them instantly. There are certainly people who are financially responsible but does it rise to the level of a crime? So much depends on the circumstances and the wording of the state law. I would assume that much of the cases go by the culpable mental state such as intentionally or knowingly or recklessly or criminal negligence.

I believe there is a huge difference between Silvester Stallone being handed an M60 machine gun for a movie take and you walking into Academy sporting goods and looking at a Glock 19. I would bet that hundreds of actors fire many thousands of rounds every year on television and movie sets. I would be surprised if any more than a handful knew anything about firearms at all. Those same movie sets have all kinds of special effects like explosions. Does the actor go check the connections on the explosives and gasoline for the special effects or do they trust experts? Almost 40 years ago with the Police Academy I learned that anytime you handed someone else a weapon, it was to be completely unloaded and the action open. The person that you handed it to was also supposed to inspect it to make sure that the first person followed the rules. When firing at the Police Academy range, when we left to go to lunch each cadet had to present an empty weapon with the action open to the cadet on either side of him/her for inspection to make sure it was clear and then an instructor had to come by and make a third inspection. I don’t think most actors went through those classes. Then… the cadet was expected to put live rounds into the weapon in a safe direction before preparing to fire. On a movie set, they are supposed to trust the experts because many or maybe most of the actors but not know how to properly load the weapon or could not tell between a dummy round and a live round anyway. I bet that I have seen it repeated 500 times on various forums…… the basic rules of firearm safety were not followed. That is absolutely correct however every time an actor points a gun or somebody else in the movies which we love to watch, they are breaking the first, second and third rules of firearm safety. It is certainly not the same as you loading a weapon in your house for self-defense, out in the field while hunting, at the range while practicing or looking over a weapon for maybe purchase or admiration. Anybody that brings up the rules of firearm safety apparently does not like to watch movies because anytime there is any gun play, there are several violations in each sequence. I have said it before but I suspect that if you change Baldwin to Eastwood and change the name of the movie from Rust to Dirty Harry and opinions would be way different. Alec Baldwin is a political idiot and a whiny crybaby. I don’t think you should be able to convicted of a felony because of his name however.

NEWSFLASH: When making movies, people point guns at each other!!

It is neither mind-boggling nor ridiculous. For one, monoclonal antibodies have been around for almost 50 years. Second, look at the people who are taking it. They are we in the group of people who have a fairly high mortality rate from Covid. People love to point out that Covid has maybe a 1% mortality however if you look at the people over 65 who are overweight and maybe even other comorbidities, the fatality rate is a lot higher. How many times have cancer patients been told, your life expectancy is 4 to 8 weeks but we have an experimental treatment that may or may not work. Do you want to try it? The treatment may not work and the treatment may even be fatal but regardless, in the next two months the price of that gonna be here anyway. What is the loss for trying that experimental treatment? For many people, monoclonal Infusion is in that arena. The first three or four days I had Covid I felt like I had a mild case of the flu. Then it turned worse and my blood oxygen for about 4 days stayed around 82-84%.. At one point when I stood up and got dizzy I laid down and took my oxygen and it was in the upper 70s. I probably should’ve been in the hospital however I got the monoclonal Infusion in Beaumont and within about 36 hours everything turned around dramatically. I am 65, about 40 pounds overweight and how high blood pressure. Considering my condition when I got the treatment, I think there is a very good chance I would’ve been in the hospital in serious or critical condition or not being here typing this right now. I don’t see how it is mind-boggling to not trust a new vaccine which has some severe reported side effects but then faced with a possible critical condition or death And opt for a treatment it might save your life. I know that by point I took the treatment, it was not because I was worried about the flu like symptoms. I still do not want the vaccine but I have high hopes for the Novavax that is hopefully coming out soon.

… if someone was calculating to intentionally make a shot, it would matter. Pure happenstance is a matter of fate.

The Coriolis Effect only applies in certain directions. I would have to know the exact range and direction the bullet was fired. But…. Wherever the bullet came down, the same angle of the barrel would apply.

At that range, you are not only talking about time but angle. Whatever angle to the left or right that rifle barrel was pointing, had it be in 1/100 of an inch and either direction, it would’ve never happened.

You certainly have a vivid imagination or did you simply repeat another person’s theory?

Yeah, starring Dog the Bounty Hunter….. 😂

Game, BH 66-28

Kickoff return to Nederland 47

At 3:01, BH 66-28

19 yard touchdown run for BH

Kickoff out of bounds. 1-10 at 30

BH 59-28

Touchdown run after pass interference in endzone

Kickoff return to 32

59-21 bh

Touchdown run

End of 3, BH 52-21

Punt to BH 42, fair catch at 1:19 in 3, BH 52-21

Kickoff returned to 29

BH 52-21