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Krandor1 t1_jegrmar wrote

Reply to comment by DeficiencyOfGravitas in 'Rust' first assistant director David Halls sentenced in deadly on-set shooting by AudibleNod

If the armorer does her job right a loaded gun is never in baldwins hand. Gun safety on set literally is her job. She failed. Baldwin is partially responsible but if she follows procedures there are never ever live rounds on set to get into the gun in the first place. Thst is the reason you have an armorer.

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GI_X_JACK t1_jegt89e wrote

From what has previously been posted. This is the armorer Baldwin hired, and then ignored because it was more or less his set. From what other people have said. Baldwin didn't let her do her job correctly. She was hired because she was cheap, and new.

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Less_Tennis5174524 t1_jegzbsw wrote

"What other people said" or in other words bullshit. We dont really know anything about his involvement at all. He has a producer credit but that could just be ego padding.

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GI_X_JACK t1_jeh0bq1 wrote

He also co-wrote the script.

Again, we'll see what people are willing to say in court.

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DeficiencyOfGravitas t1_jegs83f wrote

Every gun you receive is assume loaded until you check it yourself. There is no trust system in firearm safety. Only Hollywood operates with the "Bro, dude, I totally checked it, just point it at her and pull the trigger, bro, it's safe" system.

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Rnevermore t1_jegz4xn wrote

Standard gun safety rules do not apply on a movie set... This should be REALLY obvious. Movie sets use a completely different set of rules, and they seem to work fine because Hollywood has a much lower than average rate of incidents.

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Medievalhorde t1_jegsq5w wrote

You have to convince twelve other people to think your way and if most are not blaming Alec Baldwin before the trial, I don't see a snowball chance in hell of twelve people aligning that way either.

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malphonso t1_jegxf7l wrote

Maybe they should get Clooney to be a subject matter witness.

"Every single time I’m handed a gun on the set — every time — they hand me a gun, I look at it, I open it, I show it to the person I’m pointing it too, I show it to the crew,” Clooney said. “Every single take.” Then, “You hand it back to the armor when you’re done.” He said. Part of it is because of what happened to Brandon. Everyone does it. Everyone knows” that is the protocol to follow. “Maybe Alec did that — hopefully he did do that. But the problem is dummies are tricky because they look like real [rounds]. They got a little tiny hole in the back [from which] somebody’s [removed] the gunpowder"..."I mean every time I get handed a six-gun,” or a gun that holds six cartridges, “you point it at the ground and you squeeze it six times,” Clooney said, noting “It’s just insane” not to.

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