Alec Baldwin isn’t the sort of person who usually engenders compassion. The actor and political activist’s angry-man outbursts and other antics through decades of stardom have created an in-your-face persona that leaves little space for fuzzier considerations. Sadly, Baldwin doesn’t get to wake up to the realization that it was all a bad dream. Though accidental gun deaths are relatively rare (under 2% of all shooting deaths) compared with suicides and homicides, this isn’t a first for the movie industry. In both cases, the deaths were, by definition, avoidable had safety precautions been properly taken.

Source: Washington Post November 01, 2021 19:48 UTC