Long ago the shooting community figured out "I didn't know the gun was loaded" was killing people.
The shooting community adopted a code . They were happy to share it with the non-shooting community.
"Treat all guns as loaded" "Never point a gun at a target you do not want to destroy"
And so on.
Now,to my recall, Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy and Andy Divine and a host of others did a LOT of gunslinging and I never heard of deaths on set.
Maybe they happened.
I get it that show biz operates in the land if fantasy,they are "Artists" some are narcissists, they embrace "Nuance" and show business has its own "reality".
A shootem-up Western is going to have gun pointing.
The screen actors guild as its own safety standards. There were a number of ways those standards were violated on set at "Rust".
I'm not in the filmbiz. I am a gun guy. If I (We) decided there was sufficient need to break the usual gun rules ....say take a picture of the muzzle end of a pointed gun... We could do that.
First we would discuss it, then we would,together, take steps. Mutually clear the gun. If its an AR-15? Remove the BCG. Whatever.
But we take mutual responsibility for the fact we are "stepping out of bounds" and we install a different set of redundant safety standards for that situation.
That CAN work. Thats why the Screen Actors Guild has its own set of standards.
Now I have two points to make.
1) If you don't follow the standards, they don't work.
2) If we say "OK,for this scene, we are going outside the box. " (Time,budget,Artist Creative Nuance). You can do that . I can't stop you.
But if ANYTHING GOES WRONG you are 100% responsible. 100%. No ducking it. No "trigger thing" No "Somebody loaded it" . No "I'm just an actor"
Everyone who broke the screen actor's guild policy s 100% guilty.
Point to somebody else as guilty? Maybe so. Two people,three can ALL be guilty. That does not make anyone innocent.
FWIW "60 Minutes Australia" did documentary on this. They have video of Baldwin's gun play right up to the event. Baldwins trigger finger was fully through the trigger guard. It was part of his grip on the gun.
Not that it matters. The whole trigger thing is a red herring distraction excuse.
The shooting community adopted a code . They were happy to share it with the non-shooting community.
"Treat all guns as loaded" "Never point a gun at a target you do not want to destroy"
And so on.
Now,to my recall, Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy and Andy Divine and a host of others did a LOT of gunslinging and I never heard of deaths on set.
Maybe they happened.
I get it that show biz operates in the land if fantasy,they are "Artists" some are narcissists, they embrace "Nuance" and show business has its own "reality".
A shootem-up Western is going to have gun pointing.
The screen actors guild as its own safety standards. There were a number of ways those standards were violated on set at "Rust".
I'm not in the filmbiz. I am a gun guy. If I (We) decided there was sufficient need to break the usual gun rules ....say take a picture of the muzzle end of a pointed gun... We could do that.
First we would discuss it, then we would,together, take steps. Mutually clear the gun. If its an AR-15? Remove the BCG. Whatever.
But we take mutual responsibility for the fact we are "stepping out of bounds" and we install a different set of redundant safety standards for that situation.
That CAN work. Thats why the Screen Actors Guild has its own set of standards.
Now I have two points to make.
1) If you don't follow the standards, they don't work.
2) If we say "OK,for this scene, we are going outside the box. " (Time,budget,Artist Creative Nuance). You can do that . I can't stop you.
But if ANYTHING GOES WRONG you are 100% responsible. 100%. No ducking it. No "trigger thing" No "Somebody loaded it" . No "I'm just an actor"
Everyone who broke the screen actor's guild policy s 100% guilty.
Point to somebody else as guilty? Maybe so. Two people,three can ALL be guilty. That does not make anyone innocent.
FWIW "60 Minutes Australia" did documentary on this. They have video of Baldwin's gun play right up to the event. Baldwins trigger finger was fully through the trigger guard. It was part of his grip on the gun.
Not that it matters. The whole trigger thing is a red herring distraction excuse.