Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in 'Rust' movie set shooting

[anonymoose]

Probably. They also said the tray that they were taking "dummy" ammo from has 5 live rounds on it and Baldwins belt had two in it.

No common sense. At all. By anyone that had anything to do with the weapon.

 

[Mason Michaels]

I just told my wife that I wouldn’t point a real unloaded gun at her or anyone else and pull the trigger even after I had just checked it.
FFS, it’s common sense.

From a legal pov,someone was being paid to make sure they were safe!He's guilty, BUT Baldwin did pull the trigger, so legally that is involuntary manslaughter.

 

[archives]

I'm surprised there aren't 4-5 threads from the righties on this one already.

Baldwin is old news, he isn’t embarrassing Trump every week so they don’t care

 

[anonymoose]

I'm surprised there aren't 4-5 threads from the righties on this one already.

Why? One’s good enough.

 

[ExpressLane]

If I was an actor ,I would never trust a handler,and would check the gun myself.

Absolutely, just as every responsible person should do actor or not. Think about it. Baldwin trusted an inexperienced armorer and one that had allowed the set's guns to be fired with live rounds on the set. That is reckless. Baldwin deserves punishment because his recklessness cause the death of another person.

 

[anonymoose]

Baldwin is old news,

Him and the armorer being charged finally isn’t.

Trump

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

You never point a gun at someone unless you want to shoot them. For some reason hollywood is allowed to break the rule if the script calls for it. BUT HUTCHINS WAS NOT AN ACTRESS IN THE MOVIE. She was the cinematographer and there was no reason for baldy to point a gun at her and pull the trigger.

Baldy should have been charged w murder but it's good to see he was charged with something anyway. I thought he'd skate totally.

 

[RB 60]

No jail time.
Mandatory NRA sanctioned gun safety classes?

A little late for that...

 

[ExpressLane]

I just told my wife that I wouldn’t point a real unloaded gun at her or anyone else and pull the trigger even after I had just checked it.
FFS, it’s common sense.

That is EXACTLY what I said. And I own several guns. I wouldn't point any of them at a person , loaded or unloaded, and squeeze the trigger unless I wanted them dead.

1 22 mag
2 38s
2 9mm
1 380
1 40 cal
1 44 mag
1 45 cal LR
1 45 cal

A few rifles

A couple of AR 15
A Creedmore
A couple of 22s
A Henry lever action 38 or 357.
A Mosin-Nagant
A couple of shotguns

And a few Black powder weapons

 

[martin]

I'm surprised there aren't 4-5 threads from the righties on this one already.

Their gun mania probably makes them conflicted. It's hard to criticize a white guy, even a liberal, just because he shot someone.

 

[ExpressLane]

Baldwin is old news, he isn’t embarrassing Trump every week so they don’t care

Trump is old news.

 

[RB 60]

A 38 revolver

You know you're breaking the law, no?
It is illegal (even for a medical MJ cardholder) to possess a firearm, don't you?

 

[ExpressLane]

No common sense. At all. By anyone that had anything to do with the weapon.

Negligence from the top down.

 

[ExpressLane]

You know you're breaking the law, no?
It is illegal (even for a medical MJ cardholder) to possess a firearm, don't you?

Yep he and Hunter are both in violation of the Federal gun law that prohibit drug user from owning a gun.

 

[RB 60]

Yep he and Hunter are both in violation of the Federal gun law that prohibit drug user from owning a gun.

If Hunter is proven a drug user now, yes, he is in violation of the law.
He was a user then, but I doubt that would stand up in court today.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I don't think he is at fault.

Ultimately, he is. He should have checked the firearm safe himself and aimed it in a safe direction. He did neither.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

If Hunter is proven a drug user now, yes, he is in violation of the law.
He was a user then, but I doubt that would stand up in court today.

Bagman under the way the federal regulation on background checks works, is considered an adjudicated drug addict by virtue of being dismissed from naval service for drug use, and then his on subsequent admissions to continued use along with having gone to rehab. He's in the exact same status as a man from Rhode Island that was just arrested and had his 200 gun collection confiscated for the exact same thing. The only thing keeping Bagman out of prison is his daddy is President. That's it.

 

[Walt]

Baldwin hired an inexperienced armorer to save money.

They might be able to find evidence of that, but somehow I doubt it. First, she had decades of experience, so on paper was experienced. More importantly, he was an executive producer, meaning he had no direct control over hiring, like the producer, director, or casting director.

There might be some evidence he had unusual control, and insight, given his position, but it certainly has not been made public yet. Chances are the case against Baldwin is going nowhere.

It was Baldwin's responsibility as producer to make sure she was competent and was doing her job.

He was not producer... No more than a lieutenant colonel is a lieutenant. An executive producers job is to make a deal happen, not to take care of day-to-day decisions on how to make a film. It would not be considered unusual for an executive director to never visit a set, and to have no decisions at all about the actual film.

Sometimes people are involved with decisions that their title does not imply, so they still might get Baldwin. It is not an easy case.

 

[ExpressLane]

If Hunter is proven a drug user now, yes, he is in violation of the law.
He was a user then, but I doubt that would stand up in court today.

Hunter is a proven drug user when he lied on the federal firearms form in felonious violation of the law.

 

[floridafan]

What took so long?
That was obvious from Day One.

Why so obvious? you weren't there, you dont know what really happened. Its solely your hate for this man.