Alec Baldwin Shooting

[Spongebob]

He'd have shot whomever he was pointing the gun at and pulled the trigger.  That's how loaded guns work.  That person literally dodged a bullet that no one..or no one who's speaking up, knew was there.

Speaking of other angles worth exploring that haven't been mentioned in thread - it's entirely possible that no one in the chain of responsibility actually did anything wrong with specific regards to that firearm.  That there isn't really any productive avenue for holding anyone accountable at all.  That would be unfortunate, but it happens alot..in fact, that's the nature of the majority of on-set accidents - which probably ought to strike us as obvious..since there wouldn't be any money in making movies otherwise on account of all the claims being payed out.  Even a claim of broad malfeasance on set won't hold if they did this part right and it went south anyway.

This is precisely what I was talking about when I say that it appears that the standards and practices regarding safety on at least this production was inadequate, and this could be an indicator for the entire film industry.  Like many things, it often takes a tragedy to get people interested enough to actually reform something and make it better.  This could be one of those moments, but then again it could be just another lost opportunity.  

There's plenty of precedent to apply here.  Just compare the film industry to almost any manufacturing industry.  They are different in what they make and how they work but at the core they are no different at all; they are all businesses.  Just about every industry has some sort of inherent risks that were at one time largely ignored.  After enough death and dismemberment, those eventually get enough attention that standards are put in place to reduce the carnage and most industries have seen vast improvement in the past 100 years, though some would be shocked at how recent some of those improvements have come.  Some of the standards in the National Electrical Code regarding arc flash are less than 20 years old but the awareness of such dangers have been around for decades.

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Real murderers commit crimes and get acquitted due to a broken justice system.

Baldwin isn't a murderer.

Actually, I would describe our system as a "legal" system more than a "justice" system.