Posted on 03/06/2024 4:41:54 PM PST by hardspunned
Everyone who handled that firearm that day is equally as guilty as she is.
I agree with everything you said but with a BIGGGG.... BUT.
And, that is that somebody DIED. It wasn’t that somebody got scratched on the forearm or a sprained ankle. It WAS that somebody (another young woman) is DEAD.
If she had a part in it, and the jury thought she did, she should pay a price and not walk off scott free. That said, I agree that the judge should not throw the book at her. Somebody said 18 months. That’s probably about right because she will probably be released for half that time for good behavior. Kudo’s to her mother for being right there with her!!!
Thanks for the extra information. I forgot about the strike, the politics and how nepotism lets some people get to positions they shouldn’t be in. So like our real lives, right? Fight on!
Seth Kenney is my cousin, so I watched the trial closely. As armorer, Hannah G. had the duty to control firearms handling on the set so as to assure safety, to keep live rounds off the set, and to prevent any gun from ever having live rounds loaded. Numerous gun safety violations were shown, including the presence of live rounds on set and in an ammo mix left over from another production that Hannah G. foolishly used instead of prepared boxed ammo provided by Seth Kenney. Given that the defense failed to show anyone else as responsible for loading the revolver with a live round, Hannah G. was correctly convicted.
They should try Tina Fey.
That deserves some punishment, however she was set up as the Fall Gal to take the screwing for Arec.
Baldwin should get three times the sentence she gets.
Seemed rather young to have such a critical job.
Doesn’t matter to play the game you have to cock the hammer and apply trigger pull. Only a complete idiot does that without checking the weapon. Or an asshole that doesn’t care. In Russian Roulette you aim at yourself not someone you’ve been arguing with.
With regard to your second reason, Baldwin the actor was performing in a movie, and movies are make believe. I personally would never vote “guilty” because he pointed the gun and pull the trigger as an actor in a movie. His role as a producer is much more troubling.
Notably, the prosecution was not required to prove that Hannah G. knowingly put a live round in the gun, only that she was careless in loading the gun and did not affirmatively screen out any possible live rounds. The defense never showed that anyone else was at fault in loading the gun.
Her dad is/was a long-time Hollywood armorer, I think. She was even younger when it happened: her first solo as a production’s chief armorer.
I also know what he is and what he isn’t.
I’m amazed that 1) real weapons 2) with anmunition(!) are used in Hollywood productions these. There are so many ways nowadays to produce inert replicas that can’t possibly be loaded with live ammunition and still employ practical and post-production effects.
exactly- he refused to take safety classes, felt he was above them apparently- and he went on to break something like 18 different safety rules for handling guns, even stage guns, while on the set- he was so reckless apparently that people walked off the set due to his recklessness-
Had alec followed safety precuations while handling the gun- noone woudl have died because the gun would have NEVER been pointed directly at anyone-
Someone posted a list of the rules to follow whenever handling guns on set- and it was clear that he broke nearly every rule- but yet felt he was above safety classes-
Gun prop safety preparedness was wholly her responsibility
It’s the major facet of her job
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