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SO he is handed a weapon (even stipulating he has never handled one before which is not the case) that he knows is dangerous because in his make-believe world of acting when he points it at someone and it goes "bang" they die he should just point it at someone and pull the trigger?

He was handed a weapon that according to several accounts was told was “Cold”/ safe, why at that point would he think it was dangerous if he was not a gun owner, had never been instructed in gun safety? I know it is hard for some to believe, but there are millions of people walking around that have never touched or fired a gun, didn’t grow up in a household with guns, and have zero knowledge of firearm safety, and some of them end up being actors in westerns. This is why they have armorers on the set. If you were cast in a war movie and given a hand grenade would you show up on set knowing how to distinguish a dummy grenade from one that had a pyrotechnic charge and could actually explode.? To most actors on a movie set a firearm is treated the same as the grenade, it is assumed the professional in charge of it has given them something safe to handle.

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Posted by td01241

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Posted on 10/26/21 at 12:22 pm to EA6B

Your rambling is inconsequential. It is incumbent upon anyone holding a firearm to ensure its status for themselves. It’s not only the first rule in gun safety is basic common sense.

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Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger

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Posted on 10/26/21 at 12:32 pm to EA6B

You are trying to excuse something for some unknown reason that should not be excused. It is called personal responsibility.

If you are handed a pill from someone you barely know, and you don't have any idea what that pill is but the person you barely know says it is an aspirin are you going to give that pill to your child without checking it out?

Be honest.

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Posted by Dawgfanman

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Posted on 10/26/21 at 2:16 pm to EA6B

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He was handed a weapon that according to several accounts was told was “Cold”/ safe, why at that point would he think it was dangerous if he was not a gun owner, had never been instructed in gun safety?

Why is anyone not familiar with gun safety handling firearms?

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I know it is hard for some to believe, but there are millions of people walking around that have never touched or fired a gun, didn’t grow up in a household with guns, and have zero knowledge of firearm safety, and some of them end up being actors in westerns

Then they should be trained, they should take it upon themselves to take training. He pointed a gun at someone and shot them. That’s his fault, period.

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This is why they have armorers on the set. If you were cast in a war movie and given a hand grenade would you show up on set knowing how to distinguish a dummy grenade from one that had a pyrotechnic charge and could actually explode.? To most actors on a movie set a firearm is treated the same as the grenade, it is assumed the professional in charge of it has given them something safe to handle.

This assumption is why someone is dead. Just because Hollywood and actors have been endearing people with their unsafe practices for decades doesn’t make Baldwin any less responsible.

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