Originally Posted by Exo

Baldwin was handed a gun that was supposed to be checked safe by a propmaster. It's as if a gun instructor handed you a gun and said "it's unloaded and safe to use". You wouldn't point and shoot it at somebody but this is the movies. You kind of have to point and shoot it at people for the shot to look real.

Baldwin did nothing wrong. What happened to him and the crew is a tragedy. Well, except the propmaster. She is in big doo doo.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.