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Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .

A 13-year-old girl has died after authorities say she was shot Saturday by her 9-year-old brother, local media reported.

Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said the girl would not give up a video game controller when her brother wanted it.

Via PoliticalProf.

Cleanliness is next to politeness.

(Police Seargeant Amy–ed.) Rhoads said that a man had been cleaning his firearm when it accidentally discharged. His injuries were not life-threatening, she said.

(Link fixed.)

Fondling firearms leads to foul-up.

Investigators believe the men were inside a car in a parking lot next to the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy around 3:45 p.m. and were handling a gun when it discharged, hitting one of them in the leg and the other in the hand, said Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen.

They just couldn’t keep their hands off their penile prosthesis.

Aside:

Frankly, I suspect that this is not too far off from how many NRA members see themselves: As characters–the heroes, of course–in a Western.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Slow learner.

At some point LeClair gave a loaded magazine to King. King then unwittingly loaded the fatal shot before the rifle was set aside.

Later, Sack picked up the rifle while the other three men were looking at their cell phones.

Sack told police that he looked through the scope but was unable to see because of what he thought was poor lighting. Not realizing the scope caps were down, Sack then swung the rifle towards King and touched the trigger, shooting King in the head.

Sack told police he “knew he should have treated the gun as if it were loaded” as he was instructed to do in hunter safety courses.

Politeness builds strong families.

A 28-year-old Tacoma man who fatally shot his mother Sunday after mistaking her for an intruder will not face criminal charges, Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist announced Wednesday.

Julian Anderson-Randle killed 63-year-old Rhonda Randle in his home and reported himself to police.

According to the story, this is just another “horrible accident.”

Arming teachers is the bees’ knees.

Dennis Alexander, who is Seaside City’s mayor pro tem and a reserve officer with the Sand City Police Department, was teaching a lesson at Seaside High School in Seaside when he pointed his gun into the ceiling and accidentally fired it, said Abdul Pridgen, the city’s police chief.

A 17-year-old student was injured by a bullet fragment or by debris that fell from the ceiling, Pridgen said.

At Psychology Today Blogs, Molly S. Castelloe strives to understand gunnuttery by reviewing some of the research and analyses thereof. A snippet:

We have a pathological preoccupation with guns, Peay writes, and our country seems at times like an adolescent still rebelling from a colonizing parent. Jungian psychoanalyst Luigi Zoja describes the allure of the gun as “a naïve expression of macho masculinity – a show of sexuality and arrogant power.” Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton explains it this way. While our nation is a military superpower, the most powerful and wealthiest in the world — and in history — it is also very young compared to most countries. Lifton speculates that our country’s preoccupation with guns replaces a sense of long national history and a grounded, coherent and stable national identity.

I would take exception to this statement, “it is also very young compared to most countries,” to this extent. The United States is very young compared to European and Asian countries. It’s valid to the extent that the U. S. considers itself their offspring, but it is not young compared to other countries in the Americas and much of southern Africa. Nevertheless, most of those countries, excepting those in political turmoil, do not have the level of one-on-one violence that the United States endures.

Follow the link for the full piece.

Politeness takes practice.

According to the sheriff’s department, deputies were called to Highway 467 near Edwards after a stray bullet hit a 59-year-old man.

“Two juveniles were target practicing near-by when a bullet apparently struck a neighbor in the neck,” Major Pete Luke said.

Be polite while visiting a retail establishment.

A military veteran was injured at the Miami Armory this afternoon with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the buttocks, said owner David Becker.

Becker said the man shot himself while reholstering a semi-automatic weapon he was showing an armory employee. He said the man, who he declined to identify, was alert before being taken by medic to an area hospital.

Be polite in the parking lot.

Police were called to the parking lot of the American Bar & Grill in the 1000 block of North Plum Street just before 12:48 a.m. They arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound to the leg.

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Police determined the gunshot wound was self-inflicted as a result of an accidental handgun discharge.

Politeness is child’s play.

Authorities say a student accidentally shot himself Friday morning at a high school in Kentucky.

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A student who was in a classroom at the same time the gunshot occurred told CBS affiliate WLKY another student was playing with the gun before it accidentally fired. The student playing with the gun suffered a hand injury, the witness told the station.

March 11, 2018 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery | Bookmark this post

Politeness is a family affair.

Deputies determined that the 11-year-old boy had been shot in the ankle with a .22 caliber rifle by his 16-year-old brother outside their residence, Channel said. The injury was not life-threatening, Channel said.

Channel said Friday that while the sheriff’s office continues to investigate the incident, it is believed to have been an accidental shooting.

Via My Local Rag.

Plumb the depths of politeness.

The 62-year-old man was working under the sink in the kitchen of a Chandler Street residence. He had a pistol on his side, and apparently as he moved around under the sink, he somehow cocked the pistol, it went off and he was shot in the chest, according to the police report.

Of course, if he had had more guns, this would no doubt not have happened.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.