If it hasn't already been said, some support for Alec Baldwin as we know

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169. Yet, you immediately assume the ACTOR to be at fault.

Was that before or after you found it was Alec Baldwin? Did you read up on how sets handle guns normally? Where did you read that it was the actor and not the host of others and especially the armorer who have the SPECIFIC responsibility for checking every prop gun on the set? That they are hired SPECIFICALLY for that function. To be automatically blaming the actor--few who are gun experts in the real world--for a function that is assigned to experts tells me something. A bit like blaming the surgeon for not checking the disinfection work of everyone who prepared the Operating Suite from the day before. If he or she used an instrument not fully sterilized, well they pulled the proverbial trigger after all (despite the scores of those specifically trained and assigned to perform that disinfecting function). Do you have that expectation as well?

If, and that is a big IF there are procedures specific to that set that require the actor to second guess the actual experts who have already told him that in doing THEIR jobs, the gun is safe then I'd agree with you. But, I've seen nothing of the kind except speculation/accusations from amateur gun owners who have never stepped on a set and had no idea how it works. The latter, who by the way, we rarely hear from when the subject of gun safes is brought up after a child dies or shoots another from an unsecured gun. (How dare we tell a private gun-owner how to secure their own gun! ) But, an actor surrounded by experts assigned to that task? Hell yeah.

So, while I tend to agree with those who question whether functioning guns should be allowed on sets at all, rather than fake props aided by CGI special effects, I'm going to let the investigation play out. Will Alec (the producer, not as the actor) face civil liability for procedures not followed or that could be shown to be criminally negligent? Of course. That is a related but separate issue from holding him criminally or civilly responsible as the actor who inadvertently fired a live round-filled gun.