Alec Baldwin Shooting

[GUBU]

Oh - it' s for a MOVIE.......


That makes it alllll better....


Jesus - you have some fucked up ideas in your head.

Of course it matters. Context is everything. It's the same as saying if I drive my car in the real world I am responsible for the safety of said car. Which is true if I am the owner. If someone hands me a car (such as, say on a movie set) and asks me to drive the car for a scene in the movie, the car then has faulty brakes and I run someone over would you then say "well you were driving the car, you should have checked the brakes". 

Which in the scenario of acting is of course, ridiculous, as the responsibility for making sure any equipment I am supplied on set by my employer is fit for purpose, and works as described. If Baldwin had brought his own gun to the set, then you would be right, however you are not. 

If I am doing a scene with a realistic looking - but soft - rubber knife and I have to convincingly stab someone, but the assistant hands me a real knife instead, I am not to blame.

So I think your ideas are completely fucked up.... and I am glad I don't live in your world. 

BTW. You calling me Jesus should be slightly offensive to me as an Atheist? 

To use your first analogy, the situation in relation to the shooting on Rust is analogous to the following: you've sent your car in for a full service and gotten it back. The mechanic has told you, "yeah everything is good, oil checked, brakes, tyres, timing belt, lights, everything in order". Five minutes after leaving the garage you go to brake as you see a little old lady crossing the road 100 yards ahead and nothing happens. Without time to react you plough through the unfortunate pedestrian killing her. Who's at fault you, or the mechanic lying to you?

Now, in this specific case it's a bit more complicated than just the armourer or the ass. director being at fault, because it look's like there was a corporate culture of negligence at all levels, and if that is the case the senior management should be civilly and criminally liable as if they went up to Ms. Hutchins and shot her deliberately.