Negligence, no accident

The unnecessary killing of a movie film supervisor and wounding of another employee on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie Rust has been improperly handled and reported.

Baldwin’s discharge of a loaded gun should not be called an accidental shooting. The proper police, media and investigation at the beginning should be an unclassified killing and wounding case. The shooting was caused by negligence. The classification should be similar to why Florida no longer calls car collisions “accidents”; they are crashes.

The fact that someone mixed up real bullets with blank bullets could result in criminal charges of culpable negligence.

The film industry is known for being opposed to the Second Amendment and strongly supports gun control, except when it involves them.

I have worked security on movies and TV shows when guns were used, including on the Miami Vice series. I have always seen that people in charge of firearms take their jobs seriously. The Alec Baldwin shooting is an unnecessary act of negligence, and I hope the guilty parties are criminally prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Jerry Green, Lake Placid