Slow down and take a breath. I'm not advocating for Baldwin to be charged with killing the cinematographer. I'm on the record here on MC saying he's an actor who was handed a gun the armorer declared as "cold".. Baldwin has no more duty to be a gun expert than Betty White if she handled the gun.
Cheaper option so what people have budgets.
Budgets are fine. Saving money is fine, as long as what you're saving is excessive money and not shortcutting safety. The problem here is that the Rust production team went cheap on a job where cheap doesn't work, and their cheaping out on the armorer led
directly to Hutchin's death.
Doesn't matter if he was part of production he is not the firearms specialist someone else is who was hired this requires licenses etc which they had.
It absolutely matters. If I hire an incompetent boob to protect you to save money and he fails to protect you, it's on me.
You are looking for a scapegoat you really think this man wanted to kill or harm people if so he could have done it many other ways.
That's silly. Even the people who want him charged as the shooter (of which I am not one) aren't saying Baldwin was intentionally trying to kill Hutchins.
And no, I'm not looking for a scapegoat - I have no dog in this fight. I have said repeatedly here on MC that if I'm on the jury and the prosecution is going for a murder charge based on the gun incident, they don't get a guilty vote from me.
But, if I'm on the jury and his charges are based on his bungling of his production that led to the death of Hutchins, they do indeed get a guilty vote from me.
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MillerJones (469)
23 days ago
It's very simple you have regulations.
It does not matter if you go cheap or most expensive if you pass the regulations is all that matters.
Baldwin does not control everything.
Unless they have some documents which shows safety was not up to the standards to meet regulations and he was the one which was in charge of that side of things and neglected it knowing it failed in areas no case at all.
It's typical of US system it does not care about the truth it is one of the worst so called justice systems in the world.
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strntz (10967)
23 days ago
Baldwin does not control everything.
Correct, not everything - he's one of many producers on the film. He might also have some ownership of the film. I suspect that how much he was involved in hiring a poorly experienced armorer and ignoring the safety issues that were raised *before* the shooting occurred will be addressed at the trial. For now, I'm willing to wait for the specifics.
Unless they have some documents which shows safety was not up to the standards to meet regulations and he was the one which was in charge of that side of things and neglected it knowing it failed in areas no case at all.
They will have the testimony of the first person they offered the armorer and prop master job to. He's said on the record that he told the producers he would agree to be just the armorer, but *not* also take on the job of prop master after he read the script as there were too many guns on the set to manage. He thought they needed two people for that job.
They will also have the evidence of emails where eventual armorer Hanna Gutierrez was scolded for safety violations by the producers of Rust *before* the shooting, and Gutierrez' reply that she needed to focus on weapons and not props, so the producers were aware of the problems with safety and work load.
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