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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
One final thought on this. It seems that much of the "responsibility" assigned to Guiterrez-Reed is owing to the fact that she had left the guns out while she was away from the set. That somehow that compounds, or adds to her culpability.
Hmm... my wife and I share a home with two dogs, Ed and Tilly (known locally as "the planning committee"). You guys have all "met" them:
Like most folks, our household has rules. These two clowns are expected to obey the ones they understand, the ones targeted at their behavior.
Let's say I'm settling in on a Sunday afternoon to watch the F1 race or something. Thing One and Thing Two are either laying on the floor, or more likely the couch. I go to the kitchen to make myself a sandwich and, when I'm done, I return to the living room and place it on the coffee table. This does not go unnoticed...
Then I realize I should have poured myself a glass of milk, so I return to the kitchen, leaving my sandwich on the coffee table, in easy reach or Dumb and Dumber. And they never touch it. Because, well - rules. They know the rules.
Then maybe I realize I should hit the bathroom before I really settle in. I simply walk down the hall, leaving the sandwich and glass of milk on the coffee table. I have absolutely no worries that either of them would ever touch my sandwich. Because, again, they know the rules. Hell, I could go out and mow the lawn, leaving that sandwich right in front of them on the coffee table for hours. And they wouldn't touch it. They know the rules.
They both realize, of course, that when I return and before I finish that sandwich, they will both get a bite. But they know full well that as long as I'm gone, it's off limits.
I would have hoped that Halls and Baldwin are at least as smart as my dogs, and at least as well disciplined. They proved otherwise. Both are seasoned veterans. Both know the rules. Guiterrez-Reed should have been able to leave those guns out, in the company of adult, responsible humans, without a worry in the world. They are not dogs. They are not children. The fact that they decided to break their own rules and mess with those guns while she was gone is on them, not her.
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Not buying that. Dogs can be trained better than humans (at least in my opinion)
but that's not the point either. Rules are one thing, laws are another. HG-R was not convicted of breaking rules. She was convicted of violating the laws of AZ.
As I have been saying as much, we'll see when the "law" is applied to AB.
Speaking of laws, I expect as others, for this to be the impetus for legislation of law(s) WRT to the use of harmful devices in the production of entertainment. All entertainment.