Alec Baldwin accidentally kills cinematographer on film set

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I think the point is, from what I've read, the regulations are all already in place, they just potentially haven't followed them.

A low budget movie where the producer is also the star, isn't going to be hiring the best crew money can buy, apart from that one incident I've read positive reports on her work in the first movie. Who's to say she wasn't the best available at the time?
“Hollywood is mourning for sure, and it’s sending reverberations through the entire film community but acutely in the prop world, and very acutely through the armor ranks, of which there’s only 100 or 200 of us at all in the industry,” said Dutch Merrick, a property master and past president of IATSE Local 44 Property Craftspersons.
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What about TV shows and stage productions that use firearms that also require armourers?

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A lot of effort being put into investigating this particular incident over there. It's a kind of pathetic myopia that has them worrying about gun recklessness or negligence (as the case may be) in this isolated case, when thousands of people are deliberately killed by firearms there, every year.

I suppose attending to this would be a kind of gun control, of sorts, in a way.
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That’s a good point!
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It’s getting a lot of media attention because of the peculiar circumstances and the involvement of a big celebrity in Baldwin, but otherwise I’m not aware of whether the investigation is taking up more police resources than a regular gun homicide would.

I do appreciate the irony that this one incident will probably lead to much more significant change in the film industry than mass killings have led to in American society more broadly. That will signify the dysfunction of the latter rather than any overreaction in the former context, one suspects, but we all know by now about America’s inability to even halfway deal with its gun problem.
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Now I'm a fan of black humour, but even I have to call this tacky.

Donald Trump Jr clearly getting payback on Alec Baldwin for his impersonations of Big Don, selling T shirts that say "Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people"

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Baldwin has a pretty yukky past too, not the kid comment that was nothing!

but yeah, i feel for him, how do you get over that
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not really shes cashing in in sue crazy town, thats all
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