re: The civil suits on the Baldwin shooting are going to be EPIC!

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In every other profession, its the shooters responsibility to know what is in the firearm before pulling the trigger. Relying an some marginal prop people is no excuse, nor is it rational.

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I don’t think it’s crazy to add the actor but I think that having a very low level final check probably does not add much safety but creates some extra Monday morning quarterbacking.

Putting aside Baldwin as the guy also running the show… if you pass into an area where live rounds are banned, have multiple experts inspect and clear the gun, and then dont aim at people’s faces - to some degree it’s window dressing to have some actor who’s relatively unfamiliar with guns checking. It adds more false security than real security in the system if talking open and honestly about the skills around a set.

There are plenty of places we trust the systems in place because they are so rigid and we are so far from experts. I’ll point again to it being 30 years since the last Hollywood gun death. We’d be celebrating that level of safety in any gun ownership pool that didn’t have a liberal slant like Hollywood attached.