Winston T. Boogie
Senior HTF Member
Well, I am a compassionate person. I would never want to be responsible for killing someone. When I think about having to live with killing an innocent person, I feel like that would crush me. You could put me in jail, but I may hardly notice it.
I guess, we will all feel different ways about it. I mean, I would want a person who intentionally killed someone to be punished. This was not that kind of situation. It was an accident. The armorer was just a young woman. She was put under undue pressure by the people paying her. She was told, on a gun heavy movie, that she was only allowed to work 8 days as the armorer, she told them it would require at least 10, sounds like it needed more than that. So, the people that hired her were specifically asking her NOT to do her job.
I'm not saying that is an excuse. She should have done her job far better than she did on the day Ms. Hutchins was killed. Had she, that life would have been saved and we would not even be talking about this.
She is obviously done working on pictures. Whatever job she gets next, there is a good possibility somebody recognizes she is the one that got Hutchins killed. This case is going to be used as an example over and over and over again. She's just 24 or so years old and her life is likely ruined. Jail is probably the least of her issues.
If she goes to jail, that would not be a huge surprise. She was, it would seem, extremely negligent. It does bother me a great deal that the people paying her were asking her to be extremely negligent. If she was not there to be the armorer because she had already put in her 8 days, who was supposed to be doing that job? Quite clearly the answer to that is nobody. They were going to go around having an armorer. Either that or they were putting it on her to make the choice of doing the job for free on her own or just not showing up at all. Not a great choice for a 24 year old kid just starting out in the business that wants to keep working in it. They hired her to take advantage of her, they did, a woman ended up dead.
I guess, we will all feel different ways about it. I mean, I would want a person who intentionally killed someone to be punished. This was not that kind of situation. It was an accident. The armorer was just a young woman. She was put under undue pressure by the people paying her. She was told, on a gun heavy movie, that she was only allowed to work 8 days as the armorer, she told them it would require at least 10, sounds like it needed more than that. So, the people that hired her were specifically asking her NOT to do her job.
I'm not saying that is an excuse. She should have done her job far better than she did on the day Ms. Hutchins was killed. Had she, that life would have been saved and we would not even be talking about this.
She is obviously done working on pictures. Whatever job she gets next, there is a good possibility somebody recognizes she is the one that got Hutchins killed. This case is going to be used as an example over and over and over again. She's just 24 or so years old and her life is likely ruined. Jail is probably the least of her issues.
If she goes to jail, that would not be a huge surprise. She was, it would seem, extremely negligent. It does bother me a great deal that the people paying her were asking her to be extremely negligent. If she was not there to be the armorer because she had already put in her 8 days, who was supposed to be doing that job? Quite clearly the answer to that is nobody. They were going to go around having an armorer. Either that or they were putting it on her to make the choice of doing the job for free on her own or just not showing up at all. Not a great choice for a 24 year old kid just starting out in the business that wants to keep working in it. They hired her to take advantage of her, they did, a woman ended up dead.
