Amy Sterling Casil
2 min readOct 29, 2021

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Andrew, in general, I agree with you. However, from the woman's perspective, Baldwin is ludicrously disregarding of others' well-being and appropriate behavior. He is not a good, responsible person - his screaming at his daughter shows he has major problems as a father and anger issues. His toady-like behavior in politics and parrotting of useless gun control attacks for years makes it bitterly ironic that this occurred on his movie set. Finally, no one has commented about the union situation, which makes up over half of what I wrote. The primary wrongdoing (in addition to the assistant director's inadequate/non existent safety check) was the failure of Baldwin and the other producers to halt production when half a dozen union crew walked off with written complaints referring to the gun safety danger on the set that had caused 2 prior live ammo discharges. Now it has come out that the AD had another accidential live ammo discharge on another production and was terminated - but hired and kept on for this one. It has been reported that crew were using the guns as target practice during off-shooting times. All of the safety protocols have been established for years - and CGI can also absolutely substitute. Apparently this was supposed to be a shot of the barrel of the gun. This would be an ideal situation for a prop gun with "realistic" CGI details added in later. The point of this tragedy is that "hypocrite" is layered in with the poor judgment and lax procedures that cost Halyna her life. It was her own crew that walked off because they feared someone would be injured or killed due to how poorly the guns were being handled. And that VERY DAY she was shot and killed.

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

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