(October 27, 2021 at 5:48 pm)Foxaire Wrote: See, people who like guns have no sense.
Just a smidge of an overstatement. However, as ex army and trained with a range of firearms, civilians with guns scare the crap out of me. Have never allowed firearms of any kind in anyplace I've lived since leaving home in 1966.
Here is Oz, it's almost impossible for an urbanite (that's 85% of us) to own a working firearm and keep it at home. You may belong to a gun club, but the guns remain under lock at the club.
In Australia, real firearms may be used in film productions etc if and only if they have been modified to only fire blanks. Even so, blanks can still be dangerous, causing hearing damage at every least. This claim is anecdotal , based on army experience on exercise. All weapons (rifles and machine guns) were modified so that they would only fire blanks. If a live round was inserted into a weapon, it would explode if an attempt was made to fire it and could kill the idiot who inserted the life round. So I guess that's alright then..
After all that, I feel great sympathy for Alec Baldwin. He must be shattered; it was an accident after all. Sadly, no matter how awful he feels, the victim is still dead,
