Thank you for the clarifying response. I hope my questions didn’t come across as condescending and apologize if they sounded on that way- that would be on me.

For the record, I don’t approve of the way he treated his ex-wife and his daughter- though it’s somewhat worth noting that his daughter has issued a statement of support for him after this situation- and he’s not exactly my favorite human being in any respect.

All I was trying to say is that it looks like you decided to write this piece mainly to do a personal “takedown” on Baldwin, and that aspect of what you wrote undermines the critical, journalistic intent you brought to this.

The questions here are 1) To what extent is the responsibility for Ms. Hutchins’ death Baldwin’s, and to what extent the overall culture of management on the production 2) What consequences should Baldwin face for this versus what consequences should everyone involved with gun-handling and management overall face for the overall dangerous conditions that were created on this set and the death and injury they caused.

It looks as if you’re saying that Baldwin should face harsher consequences for his share of the responsibility because of the unpleasant aspects of his personality and the contradictions in his establishment-mild liberal politics combined with his advocacy of gun control. I absolve Baldwin of nothing here, but who he is and what he says and does politically should not be taken into consideration, either way, in deciding what level of consequences he faced.

Baldwin made a horrible mistake here, which was the culmination of a whole culture of mistakes and incompetents. Halyna was a woman and what happened to her is inexcusable, but that played no role in the fact that Baldwin fired what he’d been told was a “cold gun” in her direction. Halyna was simply the person who happened to get hit. And to my knoiwledge, nobody, anywhere has implied that her death matters less because she was a woman.