Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Is Alec Baldwin Going to Jail for the Death of Halyna Hutchins?" video.

  1. This might rub the anti-gun people the wrong way, but I always disliked use of props... The reason is, that it leads you down the "this ain't a gun" path of thinking, most importantly when planning, how to do the stuff, in this case a scene. Gun owners say "Always treat it, as if it were loaded!" for a reason. How would the scene be made, with this mindset? Well, there would have been nobody in the direction of the "gun" to be aimed, there would have been a drone or crane used to capture the scene, and the worst, which could have happened, would have been destroyed piece of equipment. All in all, this reminds me of an episode, of Mayday, also know as Air Crash Investigations, of all things... S1E5. Alaska Airlines were struggling for a while, so, they created a plan, to keep their planes in the air, generating money. The problem was, that this created environment, where non-technical person could override a tech, when that tech called for maintenance and send the plane off to the sky. This practice had two effects, thanks to increased air time, Alaska went from bust to bang. Unfortunately, the other effect was one of their planes jackscrew broke mid-air and the plane dive-bombed an ocean, only because the captain recognized the mess he got in to and took the plane away from urban areas... The guy who called this out months earlier was fired weeks before the crash (or months, my memory is hazy on this). Simply to increase profit... I am convinced, if what was discussed here was as it were, something similar must have been happening on that set. And it should be those, who were pressuring or overriding those responsible, who need to go to jail. Not an actor, who thought his gun/prop was safe to use.
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