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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Yeah exactly. 

If Baldwin was *just* an actor he probably wouldn't have been charged. 

He wasn't just an actor in this movie. This wasn't a one-time tragic accident. There were actually *two* misfires earlier. How many warnings do you need? And **no** discipline or corrective action happened on those. None. Cast and crew had been complaining about gun safety too--and the person who was responsible for handling those complaints? That buck should have stopped at Baldwin.

Also this same armourer was already well-known for being fired by Nicholas Cage for just shooting a gun near him out of nowhere. Why was she even hired?

They also had no process for ensuring live rounds weren't brought in. It's not that their processes *failed*, it's that they straight up didn't care to make any. 

Also, fuck Baldwin for lying and saying he didn't pull the trigger. We all know you didn't mean to shoot her, but it's not a magic wand, lying doesn't make you look any less negligent.
gpt
This is the correct answer. Given the data we have which is mostly hearsay. 

Nonetheless, safety culture is the responsibility of the leadership of any endeavor. If leadership allows lax safety and ignores obvious red flags, or other negligent discharged without taking action to make sure they don’t happen again, they are 100% morally responsible for future mishaps. They may escape legal responsibility but if you are Alec Baldwin, and you see or participate in bad, negligent, awful safety around firearms, and other people look at you and you say and do nothing to condemn those bad practices, you are morally responsible. 

I can’t for the life of me find the article, but there was a Canadian special forces general in Afghanistan who had a negligent discharge after a range day in Afghanistan. It was into a safe discharge barrel, so no harm no foul, but he absolutely failed at basic safe weapons handling. 

He court - martialed himself and was issued the same punishment he had given to previous soldiers in his command because firearms safety HAS to be modeled and practiced from the top. 

Alec Baldwin wasn’t just the producer - he’s Alec Baldwin. He’s a legend. He can do pretty much whatever he wants and no one will hold him accountable, and if he ignores safety violations/safety protocol, he is effectively telling people to work in an unsafe environment or lose their jobs. 

That’s wrong and it should be punished.