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Hoist a drink to politeness.

A man died Friday evening after being accidentally shot in the leg by a handgun that was passed around over drinks, police say.

The report goes on to say that “the gun went off,” implying that it fired itself all on its ownsome.

Speaking all on my ownsome, I’ve not yet met a gun that pulled its own damn trigger.

“Negligent” =/ “Accidental.”

Aside:

It would be quite refreshing were news media to stop treating gun nut negligence as some aspect of inadvertence.

Stray politeness.

A 2-year-old Tennessee girl — described by relatives as “spunky” and “sassy” — is fighting for her life after being hit in the head by a stray bullet while playing on a backyard slide, authorities said.

The NRA will likely argue that, had she been packing, this would not have happened.

Give a leg up to politeness.

Police said the 50-year-old man, who uses a wheelchair, threw his shoe at the cockroach in an effort to kill the bug. However, his revolver was inside the shoe. The gun fell out of the shoe, discharged and a bullet struck him in his foot.

If you are so unfortunate as to be involved in a vehicular incident, it is essential that you comport yourself most courteously.

The incident occurred on the evening of March 15 when a truck being driven by Olsen collided with the bumper of another car while traveling on Tope Road. After both cars pulled off the road, several minutes passed before Olsen left the scene in his truck, according to Investigator Bobby Crowdis with the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim was able to follow Olsen and get his tag number, but was forced to stop when Olsen parked his truck and blocked both lanes of Hwy. 54 just outside Luthersville. Olsen then got out of his truck and began firing around 20 shots from his AR-15 in the direction of the victim, Crowdis said.

Words fail me.

Politeness is child’s play. Again.

Two brothers were playing with a shotgun, believing it wasn’t loaded, according to Sgt. Melody Gray with Unified Police Department.

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“Our 16-year-old victim had that gun in his hand and pointed the gun at himself and unfortunately shot himself and he is deceased,” Gray said. The other brother involved was 17.

My Daddy taught me that always to assume a gun was loaded unless I verified for myself that it wasn’t. He always stored his .22 with the bolt open so you knew the chamber was empty. And he taught me that guns are not toys.

A polite society is a clean society.

The man was cleaning a gun when it fired, striking him. It was inadvertent, police say.

“He shot himself in the leg,” said Las Cruces Police Department officer Jason Sauceda.

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Polite politicos:

A top aide to a Missouri state senator was arrested after a loaded gun fell to the floor during a fight at a Jefferson City bar, according to Cole County authorities.

Jared Brown, of Malden, was booked into jail after police were called to the Spectator’s Bar and Grill early last Thursday. Brown, who is chief of staff for Republican Sen. Justin Brown, had not been officially charged as of Wednesday. The two are not related.

A police report said a 9mm pistol loaded with five rounds fell to the floor. It was recovered by another bar patron and Jared Brown, 45, was arrested, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Follow the link. It gets better (or worser, I’m not sure which) . . . .

There’s a reason movie actors use blanks.

Kalesha Peterson, 37, told police she was drinking alcohol and watching a movie with her boyfriend David Dalton at their home Thursday before the shooting in Fulton, about 100 miles west of St. Louis.

Peterson said Dalton suggested they re-enact a scene involving a gun. Peterson said she got a .38 caliber revolver from the bedroom and accidentally shot Dalton, the station reports.

Be polite to yourself.

A man accidentally shot himself in the hand while loading his weapon at the Foothills Public Shooting Complex.

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Be polite to your partner.

Brevard County Deputies said that on Wednesday, they responded to a home call after being told a man was shot. When they arrived, they said both the victim and Morin claimed it was an accidental shooting.

As the deputies continued their investigation, they learned the shooting had been sparked by a domestic violence issue between Morin and her boyfriend. Morin reportedly shot the victim because he was snoring too loudly.

Be polite to your neighbors.

According to (Police Chief Eric–ed.) Christensen, the suspect was in a back room of the ranch-style one-story house and was showing somebody else the handgun.

“He failed to inspect whether the chamber was empty,” he said. “It appears he was demonstrating how to shoot it.”

The shot went off and sent a bullet sailing through the bedroom and through two walls, including one leading to the garage where the victim was standing, Christensen said.

Bowled over with the politeness.

They arrived to find 24-year-old Trace Blakeney of Cleveland suffering a gunshot wound to the foot. Blakeney was transported to Mercy Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The suspect was quickly identified as 23-year-old Spencer Andrew Webler-Norman of Canton. According to the SCSO, Webler-Norman had a valid concealed handgun license and was attempting to adjust his holstered weapon when it discharged.

We’re told the suspect and the victim were acquainted with each other and at the bowling alley together.

Driven to politeness.

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

The shooting victim, Mark Anthony Jones, 46, told officers he was walking near the Girl Scout Cabin when his 9mm handgun began to slip in his waistband. He reached down to adjust it and the gun discharged, striking him just above the penis. The bullet then exited his scrotum.

The victim did not have a license to carry and the D. A. is considering charges, but, frankly, I suspect he’s already suffered enough.

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A polite society is a clean society.

Whatever happened to, “Make sure the gun isn’t loaded”?

When a guest, show politeness to your hosts.

A two-year-old is recovering after Pulaski County investigators say the toddler shot himself in the arm Friday night.

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Investigators say the toddler found an unlocked, loaded gun that a guest left under a bed. Deputies say the child’s parents told them, they didn’t know the gun was in the house.

Once more, politeness is child’s play.

Officers later learned that the child was inside a vehicle when he somehow obtained a firearm and it discharged.

The child was transported to an area hospital with a non life-threatening injury and is in stable condition.

Just another Day in NRA Eden.

Politeness is going to the dogs.

The gun was facing at about a 90-degree angle to the cab, Branch was standing on the passenger side of the vehicle, and the blast sent shrapnel as well as shot into Branch’s left thigh. Luckily, he was with other hunters who immediately tended to his wounds, summoned emergency medical services, and got him out to a nearby road where the medical personnel could tend to him.