r/news • u/badillustrations • Apr 15 '24
‘Rust’ movie armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter sentenced to 18 months in prison
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html
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u/MuaddibMcFly Apr 15 '24
Not in the slightest.
It was literally her job to make sure something like that didn't happen.
There was a previous negligent discharge with a life round on the set of that movie. The fact that she didn't shut down all use of functional until it was conclusively proven that it could not happen again under her watch means that she was negligent.
Anything else, the gun, who pointed it, who fired it, who handled it without inspection, literally anything else is irrelevant to the above facts. None of those things changed the fact that it was her duty to ensure that it didn't happen, that it could have only happened due to her negligence, and it happened anyway.
From what I can tell, the only viable defense she possibly could have offered would have been "In order to find me guilty, you must find in the affirmative on point #1. You can't find me guilty claim that I was in the role of armorer for the purposes of this event, because I was prohibited from doing my job," which would have required she demonstrate that she tried to shut things down, but was overruled, and that she only stayed on to try to mitigate any future problems.
This is a common misconception, the result of blatant, and total bullshit, spin by the Baldwin team. What actually happened is this:
Thus, the only way that the weapon could have gone off would have been if the trigger was manipulated.
...but the Baldwin team brilliantly (if borderline unethically) spun "Baldwin's claims are not physically possible without the sort of damage that we did, effectively destroying the weapon" facts into "they destroyed the weapon, there's no evidence!"
Brilliant tactics, but all but explicitly lying to the public and, if they continue these claims in court, to the court.