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A Classic With Stellar Guitar Solos, by the Dukes of September: Hey Nineteen (Live)

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Jay C10/24/2021 6:12:14 pm PDT

re: #20 Dopamine Fish

As near as I can tell, from all available objective sources, Alec Baldwin is essentially another victim in the whole process. He was just doing his job; he was handed a gun he was assured by multiple crew members and by the overall gun handling process was safe, he pulled the trigger, a woman died. I’m not his biggest fan, but everyone targeting him over this is just wrong. Period.

Agreed.
I’ve actually met Alec Baldwin (opinion spoiler: not overly impressed), but while I don’t think he’s quite as much the *victim* as the dead/wounded, he WAS also the producer of the film: I think some level of “institutional” responsibility for what goes on on set should apply. Kind of like how the captain of a ship has to bear the responsibility when it runs on the rocks - even if the drunken mate left the narcoleptic helmsman in charge with the nav chart turned upside down….
That said though, I agree that some (most, really) of the dumping on Baldwin over the “Rust” tragedy is - to say the least - misguided and inappropriate: where it isn’t (like Trump Jr’s in comment #3) just utterly disgusting.