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Exercise courtesy while traveling in your automotive conveyance.

James Shorter, 17, was sitting in a car Monday when he moved a handgun and accidentally shot himself in the 1500 block of Walker Street in the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park neighborhood, police said. He suffered one gunshot wound to the neck.

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

Papering over politeness:

The Xenia man in his 60s who shot himself while in the restroom at the Austin Landing HomeGoods store was using a holster not regulated for the gun he was carrying, a spokeswoman with Austin Landing said.

The holster was filled with some type of paper to make the gun fit, the spokeswoman, Cheryl Dillin, told News Center 7’s Malik Perkins on Tuesday.

The story goes on the say that the man was legally packing under Ohio’s laws, providing additional evidence that, as Dickens reminded us, “the law is an ass.”

Functional politeness:

It all started around 9:30 Tuesday night, with a call for a gunshot victim at Sheetz on Perry Hwy. in Summit Township.

Troopers say the victim shot himself while checking the function of a gun. No word yet on where the gunfire happened.

Well, I reckon it functioned as designed . . . .

Politeness takes practice.

According to a report, the family friend and Sydney were practicing shooting targets at Sandy Ridge Road with a lever action 22 rifle.

Sydney had just shot the rifle and walked down the hill to check her target. While Sydney was heading down the hill, the friend noticed she had left the rifle loaded with the hammer cocked back and he attempted to secure the device.

Reg Henry muses on American gun culture. A snippet:

In this moment of despair, when the choice appears to be between doing nothing, or doing something that foolishly poses as doing something, let me offer an irreverent thought that goes to the heart of the matter: Concerning all those thoughts and prayers for victims of gun violence, to what god are they addressed?

(snip)

The core problem is that a sizable number of Americans have made a golden calf to worship. But that graven image is not golden; it is made of shining gun metal. As long as the almighty gun is put on a pedestal in our culture, praising the Lord and passing the ammunition in the general context of our world only perpetuates the suffering.

Do please read the rest.

The term “gun butt” acquires a new meaning.

Via Job’s Anger.

Shot at a sleepover:

Warren Wimberly, 14, was shot in the chest at a sleep over at a friends house. Guillory says another 14-year-old boy didn’t realize the gun he had was loaded when he pointed it at Wimberly and the gun was discharged.

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Eden.

Afterthoughts:

How craven can the use of the passive voice be? “The gun was discharged.” The weasel wording, it burns! It was discharged oh so passively, no blame attaches.

When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, I was taught to assume that all guns were loaded until demonstrated otherwise.

Play politely.

An off-duty Iredell County sheriff’s deputy accidentally discharged a gun at a bowling alley Friday night and a 10-year-old child was hit by a fragment of the bullet after it ricocheted off the floor, authorities told ABC affiliate WSOC.

(snip)

The incident happened while the deputy was bowling, the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said.

Left unclear is whether the deputy was wearing his sidearm while making his approach.

There’s no politeness like stray politeness.

Instead, police said they were told that several men were arguing in the parking lot at the 76 gas station at Seventh and Maclay streets when gunfire rang out about 2:30 a.m.

A bullet struck Donna Warren, 51, before she could reach the store where police believe she intended to buy something. She collapsed in the parking lot, said Police Commissioner Thomas Carter.

The people who had been arguing then fled.

Just another day in NRA Paradise, where daily carnage is a given.

We are a society of stupid.

Via Juanita Jean.

Politeness is child’s play.

The 2-year-old Roanoke boy who accidentally shot himself with a handgun this week was alone in a room when it happened, according to search warrants.

(snip)

The man and woman “heard a pop” and discovered their son had shot himself in the head, according to search warrants for the apartment and the car.

Firearm flambe.

Politeness is child’s play.

A 2-year-old boy has died after being accidentally shot by his 4-year-old brother on Tuesday morning in Louisa County.

The story continues to say that the 4-year-old that the gun was a toy.

Politeness is essential to domestic tranquility.

According to the criminal complaint, Kriefall and her boyfriend were arguing. She grabbed a gun, and while arguing, it accidentally discharged. He was struck in the hip.

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The Rude One calls the steps of the mass/school-shooting bugaloo.

A snippet:

The horror will inevitably combine with the “thoughts and prayers” step, which will be followed by the “shooter is a socialist Bernie-lover” turn until it becomes the “oh, wait, nope, he’s another right-wing asshole” twist, which will be followed by the “anger and outrage against guns” step, accompanied by the “we need new gun laws” kick, which is followed quickly by the “angry backlash against the anger and outrage” twirl with a “too soon to talk about it” flourish, accompanied by the “2nd Amendment is more important than lives” head nod, the “law-abiding gun owners” saunter, and the “you don’t know what an assault rifle is, libtard” bow, which is followed by the “we need action” foot stomp and the “mental illness” waist thrust, which is followed by the “don’t worry, gun nuts, we’re not touching your precious murder tools” final step. Eventually, the dance will be complete, everyone will end up where they began, and most, but not all, will leave to go to their regular lives, while others will stay behind and wonder why no one will let them change from a roundelay to a two-step, where at least you can end up in a new place on the dance floor.