Right-wing politicians and pundits have long lashed out at Baldwin’s criticisms of President Donald Trump and his parody on Saturday Night Live. They quickly pounced on the actor responsible. Twitter exploded with #AlecForPrison hashtags.
J.D., the Ohio Republican Senate candidate, was shot within hours. Vance asked Twitter to allow Trump to return on the social media platform that had banned him following the Capitol insurrection. Vance wrote, “We need Alec Baldwin Tweets.”
Trump’s oldest son, Alec Baldwin, was selling $28 T-shirts online by Monday. The slogan, “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin murders people” was later deleted.
Gun violence has been a source of division in America for a long time. However, the fact that some observers seemed happy to take part in Baldwin’s shooting added an additional political dimension to the tragedy. Jake Tapper, CNN host, called Hutchins’ death “heartbreaking” for ordinary people on Sunday.
Tapper stated, “But there is something about our politics that is driving people away form our shared humanity.”
According to court records, Halyna Hutchins died on the “Rust”, near Santa Fe in New Mexico. According to authorities, Dave Halls, the assistant director handed Baldwin the weapon and declared “cold gun” to indicate that it was safe to use.
Joel Souza, the film’s director, stated that Baldwin was practicing a scene in which, he pulled out a revolver from the holster and pointed the gun at the camera. Souza and Hutchins were also present. Souza was injured by the shot.
It is not yet clear where the gun-handling protocol went wrong. Souza stated that the guns in the movie were checked regularly by Hannah Gutierrez, an armorer, and then by Halls.
At least two people have expressed doubts about Halls safety record.
A producer of the movie “Freedom’s Path,” confirmed Monday that Halls had been fired after a crew member sustained a minor injury and “when a gun unexpectedly discharged”. Production was not resumed until Halls was gone.
On Sunday, Maggie Goll, a prop maker, said that she filed an internal complaint against Halls in 2019 due to concerns over Halls’ conduct on the set for Hulu’s “Into the Dark.” series. Goll claimed that Halls ignored safety protocols for weapons, pyrotechnics, and tried to continue filming even though the supervising photographer, who was diabetic had lost consciousness.
Halls and Gutierrez-Reed have not responded to our requests for comment.
Reid Russell, the cameraman, stated that Baldwin was careful when handling weapons in the affidavit. Russell wasn’t sure if the weapon had been checked before being handed to Baldwin.
Many in the film industry argued that computers-generated effects should replace real guns after Hutchins’s death.
Riley Keough, actor, posted on Instagram that a loaded gun should not have been on the set. We don’t need real guns. We can make replicas and have CGI. That is my view. Not Alec Baldwin.”
Yet, director Gigi Sul Guerrero noted that Baldwin was the “face of this tragic story.” The 63 year-old actor has been mocked on social media by far-right members.
Candace Owens, conservative commentator, tweeted that “Literally not one thing Alec Baldwin said about Donald Trump or his supporters is going to age very well.”
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a Republican, cited Baldwin’s tweet last year in which he said that he would make T-shirts with the words “My hands are up.” Boebert wrote: “Alec Baldwin. Are these still available?” Looking for a movie producer.
Boebert was widely criticized. Actor George Takei claimed that Boebert was “no soul.” Rosanna Arquette, actress, wrote that “This was tragic and terrible accident. “Ms. Boebart, you should be ashamed that you politicize it,” said Rosanna Arquette. But Boebert defended her tweet.
Boebert wrote, “You crazy Blue Checks want us to give up our right to defend ourselves using a firearm and know NOTHING basic gun safety!” “If this were a conservative celebrity, you’d be calling his head.”
Serge Svetnoy (the film’s chief electrician) blamed producers in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. Svetnoy blamed “negligence” and “unprofessionalism” for the deaths of Hutchins and said producers had hired an inexperienced armer.
Svetnoy stated that “I’m certain that we had professionals in every department but one — that department that was responsible to the weapons.” “The person responsible for checking this weapon before it was brought to the set failed to do so. The result is the DEATH OF A HUMAN!
Rust Movie Productions LLC has a spokesperson for the film’s production. He said that it is cooperating and performing an internal review. Although the company stated that production was being halted, it indicated that it could resume it in the future.
Baldwin stated that he was cooperating with law enforcement investigators and called the shooting a “tragic accident.”
