Gun people getting all mad at me because I (correctly, as far as I can tell) used the term “prop gun” to refer to a gun (whether fake or real) that was a prop in a film production.
Presumably the same people who get all huffy about calling them “firearms”.
“You don’t know how to field-strip an AK47, so you have no business claiming that being shot can hurt a person”.
In any event, there seem to be two separate kinds of failures in this case. One is that one or more people failed to follow safety protocols. The other is that the safety protocols were inadequate to keep people safe in the presence of human error. One does not excuse the other.
The film industry generally does very well keeping location sets safe, especially considering the number of potential dangers (from heavy temporary lighting rigging to deadly weapons) present on them. This case will have reverberations beyond assigning blame to individuals.
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