A member of the Los Angeles City Council proposes banning all live guns and ammunition from television and movie sets

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Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz says of his resolution, made in response to the Alec Baldwin-involved Rust shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in New Mexico: “While movies can be convincing and very realistic — they are supposed to be make-believe. A single gun accident, let alone a fatality, like the one that occurred on the Rust set and the ones that killed Brandon Lee and Jon-Erik Hexum destroy the lives of not only the victims and their families, but the lives of the other actors and crew who forever after are burdened with the emotional trauma of avoidable accidents. The idea that even one misfire has caused danger is outrageous. The clear solution is banishing live guns and ammunition from the sets of television and motion picture productions to eliminate all possibility of human error in the handling of weapons so that flawless oversight and restrictions guarantee that these kinds of accidents never happen again.”