If Someone were writing a script for a made for TV movie:

[PCIntern]

So there’s this prominent actor who has voiced his political beliefs for years and has actively campaigned and professionally mocked a candidate for a high office. He has been very successful in these ventures.

Unbeknownst to him, an individual who has access to the prop department working on a film and whose politics are contrary to those of the star substitutes a real, working weapon for the make-believe and the star unwittingly kills and injured members of the film crew. He is forever tainted by this event and becomes a figure of both pity and scorn, depending upon the politics of the individual audience member. Many years later he becomes the answer to a trivia question along with a very few others.

Such is the nature of fiction when dealing with awful facts.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. That's an interesting angle. I could imagine a Colombo episode along those lines.

[bullwinkle428]

3. I'm guessing the "Law & Order" script writers are already busy on an episode

along these lines.

"Law & Order : SVU" just did an episode that was clearly based on the Matt Gaetz allegations.

[FakeNoose]

2. And the tragedy of killing an innocent person

... just to achieve a political end. That's about as ruthless an outcome as one could imagine.

[ananda]

11. Ermm... that has been the RW m.o. for the last five years.

Multiple thousands already.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Am more interested in the labor dispute sabotage angle.

[LisaL]

6. Would be important to know if the gun had an actual bullet in it, or a blank.

NT

[ZonkerHarris]

8. Hollywood has a history of this kind of thing.

[drray23]

5. interestingly enough the union prop master

walked out a few hours before.

I am sure the police is going to investigate what if any responsibility he had in leaving a hot gun in a bin ready for use with supposedly cold guns.

[LisaL]

9. We don't know if union prop master left a hot gun in a bin.

Who else handled this gun?

[csziggy]

10. Oh! I was wondering why an assistant director was the one who gave the gun

To Baldwin. I suspect normally the prop master would have done that - and would have checked to make certain that it was a cold gun.

The entire thing is tragic and I hope there are answers to all the questions.

[malaise]

7. Such is the nature of my suspicion

That is all