October 24, 2021
The Alec Baldwin shooting: everything was done wrong
By Pandra Selivanov
The big news this week about Alec Baldwin is that he shot two people on the set of his movie, Rust. Director Joel Souza was wounded but will make a full recovery. Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was less lucky. She died, leaving her husband Matthew Hutchins and their young son. She was only 42 years old.
It now seems clear there were violations of safety protocols. Mostly, decades of gunplay in films have led to very few accidents. One of the most publicized involved Jon-Erik Hexum, who shot himself in the head on the set of his TV show Cover Up.
Hexum, like Alec Baldwin, didn’t know the first thing about gun safety, which is always to assume the gun is loaded and never to point it at anything you don’t intend to shoot. In 1984, Hexum was playing with the gun like a child, put it to his head, and jokingly pulled the trigger. It was the last thing he ever did.
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