A tragedy happens and Ken's narcissistic ass manages to make it about himself and plug his shit film project. Never let a tragedy go to waste, what a scumbag.
The Republic used plastic guns with After Effects muzzles flashes because it is a low budget piece of shit, not because it was a artistic or morally virtuous choice. This tragedy happened because they hired a inexperienced Instagram THOT through the nepotism of his father's connections and an incompetent assistant director that already had displayed total disregard to follow safety procedures on previous film projects. There are countless films done with weapons using blanks and stuff like this doesn't happen more often because they hire people who follow proper procedure,
Also, it does not escape me the irony that an anti-gun activist as Alec Baldwin would want to divert all blame to anyone but himself, the one who ultimately pulled the trigger, because an responsible gun owner would have taken responsibility and check the gun handed to him out of pure habit of handling firearms.