Alec Baldwin Shooting

[Spongebob]

If every business could dump the responsibility on the user every time there something went south, there would be no use for criminal courts or civil courts.

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Precisely my point.  There was a person who was tasked with managing the condition of the gun.  That person failed.  That person was not the actor.  Keep in mind that the actor could have been a 12 year old child if the script called for it.  I knew how to handle a gun when I was 12 but that's not a reasonable expectation for everyone.  But overall, the safety of the set goes up the chain and the practices and standards were clearly not adequate.  That will be addressed, I'm sure.

That is the point. He was the owner of the production of his movie. It seems at this point, the person he hired skipped steps. At a minimum he still is responsible for hiring sub par staff. 

A long time ago, I got a job washing vehicles at a car dealership. My job was to move vehicles throughout the lot to either wash them, or move them into the mechanic bay. One day they asked me to move a box truck into the mechanic bay. But what they did not tell me, and had no way of knowing, is that one end of the bay was inches shorter than the other end. I tried to drive the box truck into one end and pealed the top end of the box like a can of tuna. They literally had to flatten the tires to unstick the truck. The problem was that one end of the bay was shorter than the other end. But I didn't know this.

So while I get Alec's remorse, and I accept it, it still remains that he was the car dealership owner.

The general sentiment of your comment is correct.  Everyone involved with the production has some responsibility for the safety of the case/crew.  There is case law that will determine the extent of that responsibility and I wouldn't be surprised if there are angles that haven't even been considered here.  But anyone who says Baldwyn is guilty of murder has an overactive imagination.