A petition demanding Alec Baldwin use his power and influence to ban real guns on film sets amasses more than 19,000 signatures following the 'Rust' movie set tragedy.
and wounded Souza on Thursday. It demands that he “use his power and influence in the Hollywood film industry to make change and ban real guns on film sets.”“We need to make sure that this avoidable tragedy never happens again,” reads the petition.
“There is no excuse for something like this to happen in the 21st century. Real guns are no longer needed on film production sets. This isn’t the early ’90s, when Brandon Lee was killed in the same manner. Change needs to happen before additional talented lives are lost.”
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