Alec Baldwin Shooting

[Rev. Rye]

And what is your opinion of the murder of Brandon Lee? Do you think that someone on the set also got away with the murder because the actor shooting the gun should have checked it?

I don' t know the details - but have read it was a blank gun - even those can be.dangerous and if you don' t know how to use it safely you should not handle it and you are responsible for your ignorance...
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I've looked up the case of Brandon Lee when the Baldwin shooting happened, and here's what I said then:

Also, how’s this for a practical precedent? On 31 March 1993, Michael Massee shot Brandon Lee with a gun he believed was loaded with blanks. It was for a scene in The Crow, but, it was improperly loaded and he wound up being shot for real. And, for the record, while I have seen a few of the movies he’s in, I cannot remember any of the characters IMDb says he played. The first time I remember hearing his name, it was when he died and the article said something along the line of “the actor who shot and killed Brandon Lee has died.”

So, what happened to him? Was he legally charged? Nope. After several months’ worth of investigations, Los Angeles DA Jerry Spivey decided to not charge him, explaining “there is no evidence pointing to the kind of negligence the criminal law seeks to punish. The kind of negligence the law seeks to punish is the kind described as willful and wanton. You just can’t find that.”

And when looking up the gun used, it was apparently a real gun. The bullets, while technically blanks, were improperly made, and because they still had their primers, they ended up acting like proper bullets anyway. And when Michael Massee shot Brandon Lee, he was actually aiming to shoot him. He just didn't expect the consequences to be so dire. And he still ended up a free man for the remaining 23 years of his life because the negligence that led to Lee's death wasn't the willful and wanton type that the law's more interested in punishing.

And I think the question in Baldwin's case is how purposeful was Alec Baldwin when that gun went off. If he did indeed pull the trigger, did he intend to do so or did his finger get twitchy at the worst possible time?