Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:25 am
It depends. My understanding is that if the scene was being rehearsed, the gun should not have been loaded with anything. If they were filming, It doesn’t sounds like the Brandon Lee scenario, in which the gun was fired at another actor in the scene. The woman who was killed was the cinematographer. If Baldwin asked why someone had handed him a hot gun, that’s evidence that whatever was in the gun, it wasn’t what expected it to be. That’sa classic cause of accidents — someone misjudging some fact crucial to the outcome.
It’s very likely that someone was negligent. We just don’t know enough yet to tell who it was.
A race car driver is not expected to inspect the conditions of his brake lines before driving, accelerating, and braking.
Is your point that an actor, similarly, is not expected to inspect the magazines and chambers before pulling the trigger on a gun that is pointed at a person?
I am sure Alec agrees with you, if that is your point.
I disagree completely. I own guns and shoot guns. The assumption that anyone, including an actor, is not responsible for knowing if a real ass gun has real ass bullets before shooting real ass people, is an absurdity I hope to never fathom.
The issue about negligence and accident being opposite is a straw-man point. They are not opposite. Red and blue are not opposites. Sometimes they are mixed together to make violet. They are just different. Who said they were “opposite”?
Accidents happen. When a finger is put on the trigger of a loaded gun, and squeezed, and the gun goes bang, that bang (discharge) is not an accident. It is as predictable as gravity.
There was no accidental discharge in this case. That does not mean there was not negligence or that there was. We do not have evidence of an accident, including the report that, in the aftermath of an actual killing (intent unknown but likely unintentional, we all agree, I think), Alec said something about a “hot gun.” All we know is that Alec pointed a loaded gun at someone, pulled the trigger, and killed the person. There was no mechanical failure, the gun worked as designed.
This is some seriously screwed up stuff, by the way. I mean, the jokes are definitely coming and fingerpointing and investigations are coming, but it is still some screwed up stuff.