Alec Baldwin and shooting his camera woman.

 I assume it was an accident.  I don’t know any of the principles personally but I don’t think they are the kind of people who would commit murder. 

The TV news has talked and talked about the shooting that resulted in the death of the camera woman.  What really happened is Alec didn’t know, or didn’t bother with, the first and simplest rule of firearms safety.  Namely ALWAYS check that the gun is NOT loaded when you pick it up.  Open the action, remove the magazine and look in the chamber to make sure no live round is lurking therein.  The gun in question I believe was an 1873 Colt .45 single action Army revolver, the kind that loads the cylinder one round at a time thru a loading gate.  This means when Alec picked up this gun, he had to check all six positions of the cylinder, one by one for being empty.  A little tedious.  In this case, the check was not made either because Alec was ignorant of gun safety rules, or he found the check too tedious to bother with.

   This makes the shooting of his camera woman an accident, but it is Alec Baldwin’s accident.