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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Alec Baldwin getting away with murder
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 20:06:57 -0500
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On 3/7/24 5:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article
> <17ba9b03ee0e9624$13863$3298354$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/7/2024 4:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <usd4m9$17bvi$1@dont-email.me>, Alan Smithee <alms@last.inc>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/07/2024 01:42 PM, EGK wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/03/rust-movie-armorer-guilty-shooting-death-123
>>>>>> 5847983/
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Did you watch the trial yesterday? She was quoted as saying she could
>>>> not be responsible for everyone on the set. Even tho it is her job to be
>>>> responsible.
>>>>
>>>> Baldwin should be held accountable, but he will likely walk.
>>>
>>> Once upon a time, I spent an afternoon on the CSI:HORATIO set as a
>>> technical advisor (the episode dealt with counterfeit currency and they
>>> took none of my advice regarding how what they were doing wasn't
>>> accurate in any way), and in every scene with guns, as soon as they
>>> yelled cut, the armorer zipped in and took everyone's pistols and put
>>> them on a table over in the corner of the sound stage. He stood watch
>>> over them until the resets were done and they were ready to go again,
>>> then he handed them all back out again.**
>>>
>>> (I do not know if there was a separate sunglass wrangler for David
>>> Caruso.)
>>>
>>> **The armorer guy went white as a sheet near the end of the day when it
>>> came to his attention that I'd been sitting on set all afternoon with an
>>> actual loaded handgun under my suit coat.
>>>
>>> Based on what I saw that day and how firearms are treated on set by a
>>> responsible armorer, Baldwin should never have been playing around with
>>> a gun outside of an actual filmed scene, and certainly shouldn't have
>>> been pointing it at people. What possible reason could he have had for
>>> pointing it at the director and the DP?
>>
>> Was he not rehearsing a scene that called for him to point the gun at
>> the camera and then to "fire"? If he was, then I can buy that he did no
>> worse than most movie actors would've.
> 
> Another thing the CSI folks had were dummy guns for such rehearsals. Big
> hunks of brightly-colored plastic that are shaped like handguns.
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> https://www.securityprousa.com/collections/training-guns
> 
> They used those for rehearsals and only brought out the real guns for an
> actual take. Even in the actual take, only the people whose guns needed
> to cycle for realism were given real firearms. Everyone else had black
> painted gun replicas that were nothing but solid pieces of plastic. They
> looked real on camera but had no ability to shoot anything.
> 

Then go and try THAT case, because it has nothing to do with THIS one.

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