How are they “wildly different”? Both incidents are due to cut corners, the armorers not doing their jobs and the actors being complacent and blindly trusting the person in charge. Both guns could have been found as dangerous by a basic safety check. The squib in “Brandon’s gun” would have been immediately apparent on a basic show clear when there is no daylight coming out of the barrel, this would be the very first thing you are taught on gun handling before you are even allowed to even pull the trigger. In the end both incidents had people die in preventable ways due to negligence and complacency, which is the only thing that matters.
Result is that the actor would have done nothing “wrong” and still have killed someone, which is definitely not something anyone would want to do, and would have been completely preventable if they had exercised just a bit of common sense and checked their own gun even once.
How are they “wildly different”? Both incidents are due to cut corners, the armorers not doing their jobs and the actors being complacent and blindly trusting the person in charge. Both guns could have been found as dangerous by a basic safety check. The squib in “Brandon’s gun” would have been immediately apparent on a basic show clear when there is no daylight coming out of the barrel, this would be the very first thing you are taught on gun handling before you are even allowed to even pull the trigger. In the end both incidents had people die in preventable ways due to negligence and complacency, which is the only thing that matters.
Result is that the actor would have done nothing “wrong” and still have killed someone, which is definitely not something anyone would want to do, and would have been completely preventable if they had exercised just a bit of common sense and checked their own gun even once.