Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 18:38:43 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <1797980814.731492324.194688.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 18:38:43 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="928dce9f555ac96c2a33183b2b131539"; logging-data="1267257"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Tr4YRer/R+otzxuEKbyGcwz6UD94Kv4o=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:9vuuiSzdk3B1wBPBvAUcWBinh5A= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2744 EGK wrote: >Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >>https://deadline.com/2024/03/rust-movie-armorer-guilty-shooting-death-1235847983/ >Classic example of shit rolling downhill and our two-tiered justice system. >Baldwin is "loose" with weapons on the set and he fires the fatal shot but >because he hired a young and very inexperienced armorer, she ends up being >the perfect scapegoat. You are completely wrong here. That's not what "being the perfect scapegoat" means. She's not any kind of scapegoat. She was in charge of loading and supervision and care of those weapons. On her watch, live ammunition was brought onto set and mixed in with blanks and the "denatured" (I forgot the term for bullets without gunpower) ammunition. She prepared the guns that morning. She then left them, plus the mixed ammunition, unattended because she had another part-time job in the props department. She's literally not allowed to leave the guns unattended, not ever. If she's not there, they are unloaded and placed in the propmaster's safe. Yes, I understand that it was inconvenient for the propmaster to be there to unlock the safe when they were setting up for that scene. He failed in his duty anyway. But if the guns were to be out, then she COULD NOT perform another job on set. It's that simple. Some jobs are of the kind, like hers, that she cannot obey an order not to do the job she must do. She must refuse such an order. She can be fired for refusing an order, but she must not obey an order that requires her to leave the guns unattended. It's not a difficult job but it requires someone to perform it who isn't a fuckup. She's an adult. Inexperienced or not, she's allowed to perform work that requires her to be totally responsible.