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Learning how to check a weapon is so simple, it's as easy as putting on a seatbelt.
It takes a few seconds to hand over a weapon correctly. That's it. There is nothing complicated I promise you. I can introduce you to soldiers who could not lay an E chord but can check a weapon.
I f were an actor, I'd want to check my harness, weapon, or anything where my own life, and those in my immediate vicinity, were put at risk.
It's simple but I also say that the protocol's must work because deaths are few and far between.
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The film industry has had over a hundred years to develop its practices and protocols, and clearly they work, 99.9% of the time. But no system is foolproof, mistakes, failures and tragic accidents will happen from time to time.
This shouldn't be a lesson to actors to check firearms, it should be a lesson to the armourers to do their jobs properly - or to their employers to recruit more carefully. In every organisation, every hierarchy, different roles and tasks are delegated to experts at the appropriate level. The guy at the top doesn't check the work of everyone he employs (and yes, I realise they are not life or death situations).
@soma1975 actually works in this industry, can we not just accept what he says?
If you think being an actor is just 'remembering lines and following a Director's instruction' you clearly don't know (and seemingly don't care to know?) what it takes to have the mindset to be an actor and why it is an unbelievably catastrophically bad idea to make them responsible for firearm safety.
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And I'm stone cold sober. So I won't try. Soz.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
But experts are there for a reason, too.
Happy to leave it there but it's not like your post was particularly ambiguous and open to all sorts of interpretation with its 'If they can follow lines they can do a gun safety check' and 'shouldn't be cossetted' message.
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It's probably more a case of "it'll be alright". That's what happens on the railway sometimes. People ignore the rules and take shortcuts because they think it will be alright. It is down to time pressure, and not wanting to spend longer doing the job.
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That might be an effective form of gun control.
Or thus we thought. From what's come out so far it appears that may have been a misplaced assumption. It's a tragedy for the victims, their family and friends, and not least for Alec Baldwin who will probably always blame himself for it to some extent even though it was *really* not his job to make sure he hadn't been handed a prop which was capable of killing someone.
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If professionals get it wrong, why hold actors to a higher standard?