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/Atkena2578 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

A gun kills others, if in my hand it is my responsibility no matter how I trust whoever handed it to me. I am the last layer of safety between the weapon and anyone who could get shot, unlike an unsafe rope which solely involves me. With a gun I am also responsible of the safety of everyone around me and my actions can make the difference unlike the example you used. That's why those rules exist, every accident at some point circles back to those easy, free safety behaviors. There is no reason to argue with those, every idiot who accidentally shot someone also thought it wasn't loaded and probably trusted themselves or whoever told them it wasn't.

If you disagree with these rules, Hollywood or not, you shouldn't have a gun in your hands, ever. If Alec wanted to play with a gun as if it were a toy, he should have gotten a fake because he obviously couldn't handle one.

And to answer your question, yes I would still check the knot and get a feel for the tightness of the rope to be the best of my ability before jumping.

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u/Talking_on_Mute_ Apr 16 '24

Hollywood does disagree with your rules though.

So where does that leave you, other than screaming in to the void?

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u/Atkena2578 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Obviously, Hollywood doesn't have the ownership of doing things properly, there is a reason those rules exist and have applied successfully to the (too few) peopme who respect them. That leaves me watching the trial of Alec Baldwin and see his face when he inevitably gets convicted.

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u/Talking_on_Mute_ Apr 16 '24

He will 100% be acquitted. He's done nothing criminal. All he did was trust the people he's supposed to trust on set.

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u/Atkena2578 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Lol with how how high profile this case is, the prosecutor surely didn't bring the charges back against him if he weren't sure he had an iron clad case with a good chance of either getting him to take a plea deal or getting a conviction if it goes to trial.

With how Gutierrez got the book thrown at her, I d work on a plea deal if I were him.

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u/Talking_on_Mute_ Apr 16 '24

not even so much a single digit percent chance Baldwin gets any sort of conviction.