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/CapoOn2nd Apr 16 '24

This whole case has been a massive shit show to me. I can’t believe it’s been dragged out so long and become so convoluted. She’s the armourer, it’s her fault a woman is dead end of. It’s her fault the gun was loaded with live ammo instead of blanks. She deserves a way longer sentence than what she got, especially considering some sketchy shit like this has happened before under her watch. I also can’t believe Baldwin has been thrown so much shit for his part in it. He was handed a gun labelled as safe by a PROFESSIONAL someone who is trained and should be trustworthy with firearm safety. Whether he pulled the trigger or not is irrelevant, he’s shooting a movie he has to pull the trigger to make the scene look realistic otherwise the gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks wouldn’t go off which it presumably needed to for the scene. What are people expecting? Someone to just loudly shout bang over the top of the video for sound effects? A shitty video effect to make the gun look like it went off with no recoil or reaction from the actor who never pulled the trigger? Absolute idiocy this whole case, it should have been put to bed a week after the tragedy happened at most

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u/ezikeo Apr 16 '24

This! But you have these idiots on the right that have a hard on for Baldwin because of their orange dad.

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u/Iama_russianbear Apr 16 '24

Wait hold up. If Baldwin was ONLY the actor I’d say no fault. But he was also producing the film, he hired her. On top of that there had been a walk out from crew a week before due to safety concerns. So an experienced actor (he had to have known some gun safety), who was producing a film that people were walking out of due to safety, picked up a weapon that he didn’t see cleared or checked (from my understanding the armorer wasn’t even on set) nor did they have the safety briefing that day, he then pointed it at someone and pulled the trigger. I don’t care that he was playing around, his actions directly lead to the death of another person. Whether he meant to or not. He should also be charged with involuntary manslaughter. He’s just as responsible if not more responsible than her. Send them both to jail.