Discussion: Actor Wounded After Real Bullets Used In 'OK Corral' Shootout Re-Enactment

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The uninjured tourists were delighted with the realism and anticipate the mock hanging entertainment. Tombstone residents look forward to ponying up the settlements.

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This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard in my life.
Investigation complete? How did this happen?

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Shouldn’t he have felt the difference between firing blanks and live rounds?

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Darwinian Roulette…

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“One of the guns fired live rounds” – because guns fire entirely of their own volition and are in complete control of what is placed in their chambers.

So when someone uses a gun to kill a person, it’s “guns don’t kill people, people do.” But when someone puts live ammunition in a gun being used for stunt purposes and someone else doesn’t check the gun before aiming and firing it and another person, it’s “People don’t negligently/recklessly/maliciously fire live bullets, guns do.”

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Shouldn’t he have? Shouldn’t he have stopped shooting after the first person had a hole in them? Or after several buildings had holes in them? It took five shots for him to stop.

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Seriously. It’s bad enough to ever get careless with a firearm. But to be careless with a gun you’re pointing and firing at another human being in a reenactment, Jesus Christ, that’s about as bad as it gets.

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When I was a teenager, I was instructed to never point a weapon, unloaded or not, at another person. BTW, at close range, a blank round is totally capable of inflicting injury. Arizona, the Nimrod State.

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This is what we get in a gun worship culture. The western movie genre, the wild west, the rugged individualism of the 19th century, cowboys and Indians (anyone play similar games growing up? Which one of these was supposed to be the bad guy exactly? And which would you choose either way? The guy with the gun, or without?).

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Either someone in the troupe is using his antique/replica Colt for target shooting and these reenactments, which, on top of leaving it loaded after target shooting and failing to check the loads every single goddamn time would be such a grotesque violation of safety rules as to border on criminal negligence, or else somewhere a psychopath has access to these weapons and loaded one of them up for fun and these guys got complacent about safety and the need to check the loads every single goddamn time.

Hopefully, the local “marshal” didn’t get his own prints on the brass.

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Is this a preview of the NRA’s new instructional film called “Wyatt Derp”?

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Oh jeeeeeeeeeez’…and WTF?

** …and surpassed only by THIS gem:**

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___reference the “late” actor Jon-Erik Hexum:

…and Brandon Lee, the son of actor Bruce Lee
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/01/obituaries/blank-pistol-kills-actor-the-son-of-bruce-lee.html

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As a huge fan of the movie Tombstone, I was thrilled at the opportunity to visit and see the Gunfight at the OK Corral reenactment when I was out in Tucson a few years ago. I the show is cheesy, hokey, scenery chewing fun, but the shooting was so loud and frankly a little unnerving and the audience is right there, a few yards away from the “action”. Those folks are lucky this wasn’t a real 'Merica “reenactment” in which they were using assault weapons in celebration of their 2nd Amendment rights. Yee haw!

BTW, anyone else think of Brand Lee and the Crow?

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Beat me to it.

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In the mid-nineties a PTLA guard at Los Alamos National Laboratory was shot and killed during a training exercise. The official explanation was the shooter had come from his regular duty and went through a pre exercise screening but he neglected (key word) to remove one of his duty magazines of live ammunition.

I am going to guess Mr. Vigilante simply picked up the wrong six shooter that day and being accustomed to being around guns all the time, presumed he knew what he was doing until reality intruded on his imaginary world. It happens all the time. If the Tombstone PR people do their job we will never know what really happened.

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Wait just a gol’durned minute. We’re not talking about THE Ken Curtis, are we? First off, he was the deputy of Dodge City, not Tomebstone, and secondly he’s John Fucking Ford’s son-in law and the front man for the Sons of the Pioneers and replaced goddamned Frank Sinatra in the Tommy Dorsey band for Christ’s sake. NO fucking’ way!

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU0Mjk4MzYzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzk1MzcxOA@@.V1_SY317_CR14,0,214,317_AL.jpg

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Sorry Tom you’re doing a really good job in the gunfight enactment and are next in line for the lead role, but unless something happens to Ken, he’ll be in the lead role for quite some time to come…

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Takes method acting to a whole 'nother level. Shades of Tropic Thunder.