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Via Job’s Anger.

Politeness is a family value.

The Pratt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the accidental shooting of a 5-year-old girl Wednesday morning in the southeast part of the county.

The sheriff’s office says the girl’s brother accidentally fired the single shot that hit her in the left arm. One adult was home at the time of the shooting, the sheriff’s office says.

No mention is made of the age of the brother, but the wording at the link above and in Pratt County’s local rag gives the impression that he not very old.

A recipe for politeness at the confluence of guns and stupid:

Warren police say Garlock put the gun in the broiler because children were coming over.

His girlfriend, unaware of the gun’s presence, turned on the oven Sunday to bake. Police say she called out to Garlock when she thought she heard a gunshot fired outside. Police say Garlock was struck by bullets or bullet fragments when they exploded inside the gun.

The person who wrote the story decided to be all cutesy-poo and point out that “no charges have been filed against the oven,” but, then, it wasn’t the oven that was stupid and negligent was it?

It wasn’t the girlfriend, either. How many of you open the oven door to check for weaponry before turning on the broiler?

Fuffu.

Get a load of the politeness:

Police say the 24-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man were staying at Hotel 116 near downtown Bellevue.

She told investigators that the man was playing around with a handgun and she had told him to stop. He reportedly told her not to worry because the gun was unloaded. At one point, he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger.

It was loaded.

Dancing a jig of politeness . . . .

Jackson says the (off-duty FBI–ed.) agent, whose identity wasn’t released, was dancing at the downtown club around 12:45 a.m. Saturday when the firearm fell from the agent’s waistband holster onto the floor. It discharged when the agent picked it up.

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.