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Re:Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughte... by matt-attack on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:02PM (#34456078)
The way I see it, it’s not unlike the expression “Workplace safety rules are written in blood”. It’s taken a century of fatalities and refinement of procedures to come to the modern set of 4 gun safety rules. They exist because of those countless deaths over the years by those who didn’t follow them. The morality of it speaks for itself.

Given how much thought, refinement and bloodshed are behind those rules, to not follow them seems immoral. Anyone handling a gun has a moral obligation to following the safety rules. Do to otherwise is criminal negligence.

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Re:Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughte... by hackinthebochs on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:37PM (#34456617)
The issue isn't morality, but one of legal responsibility. What is the legal theory for an actor's personal responsibility to ensure the safety of a prop gun before using it?
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Re:Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughte... by torstenvl on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:50PM (#34456855)
It wasn't a prop gun. It was a real gun being used as a prop.
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Re:Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughte... by hackinthebochs on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:54PM (#34456920)
I'm not sure why you thought honing in on the least informative word in my comment was useful.
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Re:Alec Baldwin Will Be Charged with Involuntary Manslaughte... by roundandround on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:56PM (#34457927)
The US has a kind of older code of guns organically and manufactured in organizations that need people to handle guns. If you are not careful I think you are going to talk past people from places where that code seems universal.

I.e. I can understand the perspective that not checking a gun you are handed is always gross negligence even though I have friends that I don't think would know that.

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