Newfie wrote:PIERS MORGAN: The more we learn about Alec Baldwin's deadly shooting 'accident', the more culpable he looks for being executive producer of a chaotic, dangerous sh*t-show run by amateurish cowboys that made the tragedy an accident waiting to happen
From my perspective I was shocked to learn that functioning firearm were EVER allowed onto a set. That right there violates my training. Why? For what purpose? Makes no sense. It you are not going to shoot it then why does it need to shoot? That goes double for live ammunition. “Blanks” are bad enough and have killed folks in the past.
Yes. I read a few articles on this because I was SHOCKED that prop guns could actually fire live rounds.
From what I read, they want realism for shows guns are used in. So it needs to LOOK like a functional gun. And the trigger hardware needs to move like with a real gun. And apparently for blanks, they want such guns to be able to fire blanks (and make a good bang, flash and discharge smoke, etc), and yes, blanks can be dangerous at close distances.
But if you are going to be pointing a weapon, even a prop gun at people, there need to be SERIOUS safety protocols. I'd prefer that they use all that fancy tech. for special effects to come up with a way to make prop guns completely incapable of firing a live round, but fire some sort of special blank with, say, a modified firing pin.
And I'd think the NRA, being supposedly so safety conscious, would strongly be pushing for something like that and be very public about it
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Every time some idiot shoots someone "accidentally", I always ask "Why the hell was the gun POINTED at someone?" And when someone shoots themselves cleaning their gun, I ask "Why the hell wasn't the gun confirmed to be unloaded before cleaning it? AND why the hell were they aiming the gun toward their body?"
If my dumb ass could understand and follow these principles as an 8-10 year old at day camp where we routinely shot 22 rifles at targets, safely, it's beyond me that functioning adults can't figure this out.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.