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Beau says:
A missed chance for leadership to reinforce gun safety following Alec Baldwin's tragic on-set incident, urging vigilance in firearm handling and education.
Gun owners, advocates
The emotional impact and tone of Beau's message, as well as the urgent call for responsible leadership and education in the aftermath of tragic incidents.
#GunSafety #AlecBaldwin #Tragedy #FirearmHandling #Leadership
Well howdy there internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we're gonna talk about the Alec Baldwin thing.
We're gonna talk about what happened
and we're gonna talk about the response to it.
And we're going to talk about
never letting a crisis go to waste.
And we're gonna talk about leadership and the lack of it.
If you are unaware, if you don't know what occurred,
Alec Baldwin was on set.
He was on set filming a new movie,
I believe it's called Rust.
And he was handed what they are calling a prop gun.
It wasn't, it was a gun being used as a prop.
Reporting suggests that he was told it was empty.
It was not.
There was a live round in it.
He fired it.
And a woman lost her life.
Another person was wounded.
The response to this from the gun community
has been to mock it, to make fun of it.
Donald Trump Jr. started selling shirts that say
guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people.
I get it, I mean it's like a woman lost her life.
It's super funny, I understand.
There's that saying, you know, you never let a crisis go to waste.
And when people say it, they normally put it into a narrative
that implies something nefarious happening.
You know, people using an event that happened to further their own agenda.
That doesn't have to be the case.
See, this incident, this could have been used to reinforce gun safety,
rather than mock it.
It could have been used to point out to those people in the gun crowd
who are currently making fun of this,
that today, about 42 people, statistically speaking,
42 people will end up in the hospital with an unintentional gunshot wound.
27,000 a year.
Roughly 500 of them do not make it.
One a day is lost to unintentional shootings.
And I get it, right now, the gun crowd, you know,
they don't like Alec Baldwin, so they're mocking it.
But understand the other 499 or so are people in the gun crowd,
or they are at least gun crowd adjacent.
They are friends, family, the children of people in the gun crowd.
This would have been the opportune time to go over basic gun safety stuff.
Remind people of it.
It's your friends at stake.
It's your community.
I don't know if there was any real leadership.
But see, the right in the United States, they don't have leaders.
They have what amounts to internet trolls
who found their way to positions of power, fortune, and fame.
And they act as though they are still internet trolls.
This would have been the opportune time to point to these numbers.
This would have been the opportune time to explain to everybody,
if you are ever handed a weapon, if you are ever handed a firearm,
you keep your finger off the trigger, you keep it pointed in a safe direction,
and you visually inspect the chamber.
You look every single time.
You do that.
The single most dangerous firearm in the world
is the one that you are pretty sure is unloaded. Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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