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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
That's a succinct summation of what I'm referring to as non-dischargeable duty.
At the end of the day, when you are handling a gun and someone dies, what YOU did is primary. If you point it at someone and pull the trigger, does it shield you from responsibility if someone else told you that was a safe thing to do, even if that representation was the only steps you took to verify safety?
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Not sure about this. Going back to Michael Massee, the actor who shot and killed Brandon Lee, I don't think he was ever held criminally or financially liable for the incident. Of course, there hadn't been several gun-related incidents on the set of The Crow prior to the shooting. I think that's the kicker here. Everybody should have been hyper-vigilant regarding firearms handling in light of all the shit that was going on and obviously that didn't happen.
That being said, despite my personal feelings about Baldwin, I don't think he should go to jail. He will likely be held financially liable to some degree, but he clearly had no intent to shoot and kill a woman who he knew and was probably friends with. And carrying that around for the rest of his life will be punishment enough.