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Be polite to your elders.

The grandson was cleaning his gun when it went off and fired through two rooms, striking the grandmother.

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When police arrived they found a woman suffering from a single gunshot wound. She was transported to UMC Trauma and later pronounced dead.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

Politeness precedes childhood’s end.

The incident took place at the Milliken Road home of the girl’s grandparents, police said previously. The girl was in the bedroom with her father on Monday night after 7 p.m., when the father, Todd Dorr, got up to adjust the television, according to McCausland.

When Todd Dorr was moving across the room, the girl took the gun from her father’s backpack nearby and it went off, detectives claim.

The firearm was not in a holster and there was no gunlock, McCausland said.

Clearly polite:

After further investigation, officers learned that another person inside the residence was attempting to a clear a .22-caliber rifle when it accidentally discharged and hit the woman.

Whatever happened to “make sure your gun isn’t pointing at anyone”?

Be polite to the children.

A 3-year-old girl’s father and uncle were “extremely intoxicated” and handling a firearm early Friday when it accidentally went off, the bullet hitting the child in the foot, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said.

Familial politeness.

Louisiana authorities say a 7-year-old boy shot his aunt two times after she didn’t get him food.

Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton says the child will not be charged with a crime.

He says Louisiana law states a child under the age of 10 cannot form intent, so they do not have the authority to file charges against the boy… even though he loaded and reloaded the gun during the incident.

The police think counseling may be called for. Y’think?

Aside:

Had the aunt been packing, she could have defended herself.

Remember, practice makes polite.

When officials arrived they found the male victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip.

The sheriff’s office says the male was target practicing on the property at the time of the shooting. Deputies say it appears that another male accidentally shot the victim.

Aside:

Y’know, if they can’t even get practice right, how well do you think they will do in the big game?

More polite play.

A 4-year-old girl is in critical condition after a shooting Friday night.

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Investigators said two or three young children were at the home, and they said the 4-year-old was playing with the gun.

Just another day in the Gun Nut Garden of Eden . . . .

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Show politeness to the children.

The man allegedly walked toward the boy in the middle of the street and said, “Hello.”

The boy said, “hello” in return, reports say.

The man then lifted his left hand from behind his hip, exposing a black handgun, and pointed the weapon at the boy, according to Novak’s account.

The boy said the man pointed the gun at him from about three feet away and that he feared for his life and peddled away as quickly as he could, the incident report says.

The police have picked up the polite pointer.

. . . and a polite society is a clean society.

A man cleaning his gun accidentally shot through the floor of his Oceanside apartment Tuesday evening, critically injuring a woman who was watching TV.

Police responded to the 1300 block of Bush Street around 11 p.m. after a man called and said he was cleaning his 9mm Glock handgun and accidentally shot through the floor of his apartment, Oceanside police spokesman Tom Bussey said.

Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
This I tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

He can’t handle his politeness.

Officers were called to the facility by hospital staff regarding a shooting victim that had arrived in the emergency room.

Through their investigation, officers determined that the man had been handling a weapon at his Oxnard home when it accidentally discharged causing a wound to his leg. The wound was not life threatening, officials said.

There’s a strange alchemy that seems to work only in the presence of copper.

Newton Fire/EMS and Police in Newton responded to an accidental shooting at 8:32 p.m. Saturday involving two juveniles on Saturday evening at 1009 S. Kansas Ave.

Newton Fire/EMS confirmed treatment of a gunshot wound that night. The gun went off, inflicting a gunshot wound on one of the children.

Add lead, and “children” become “juveniles.”

Gather ye politeness where ye may.

The gunshot was fired in the 19-hundred block of Iditarod Trail Saturday evening. A young man was found alive and bleeding before he was rushed to the hospital. He passed away Sunday morning.

Police say the young man and a friend found the gun unattended in a city park. They took it home, and one of them accidentally shot the other.

A fell swoop of politeness:

Just before noon Thursday, the man told police he was walking into his bedroom in the 1100 block of Hospital Road to turn on a television when the gun fell and discharged, according to a report from the Franklin Police Department.

A bullet hit the man’s finger, went through a bedroom wall and exited into the living room, according to the report. He was treated at a local hospital.

Be polite to passers-by.

The report states that Scotty Gene Blair, 35, of rural Potosi, was told that somebody was on his property on the evening of Aug. 5. Blair retrieved a Marlin .22 caliber rifle from inside his home and went to investigate.

A 17-year-old male had stopped his vehicle on Highway 185 to check on a vehicle that had just been involved in an accident. Blair allegedly shouted at the motorist and asked him why he was stealing from his property, then fired a shot in his direction.

And, in international news of the polite . . . .

Yet more polite play.

A 10-year-old boy fatally shot his 6-year-old brother in the head Wednesday morning with their mother’s handgun while they were alone inside their mobile home in West Mifflin, Allegheny County Police said.

Had the other boy been armed, no doubt this would not have happened.

Afterthought:

You probably tire of these posts. Me, I tire of the sacrifice of lives on the altar of profits for munitions makers.

Play politely.

Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Stoddard said three brothers, ages 10, 12 and 14, were playing a game of “cops and robbers” with rifles that they believed were not loaded.

At one point, the 10-year-old boy pointed a rifle at his 14-year-old brother and pulled the trigger, the sheriff’s office said. The firearm had the magazine removed, but the boy didn’t know a round was in the chamber. The firearm discharged and struck the 14-year-old in the chest.

Politeness can get you out of a jam.

The shooting happened Saturday evening in the parking lot of O’Reilly Auto Parts on East North Street. Police say two men were sitting in a pickup with the gun.

The driver told officers that he had been trying to clear a jam in his loaded revolver when he shot himself in the leg. The bullet went clear through him, continuing on its path to strike the man in the passenger seat – also in the leg.

Rear your children to be polite.

A 4-year-old Wheatfield boy died Saturday after he accidentally shot himself at a babysitter’s house in unincorporated Crown Point, officials said.

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. . . he found a handgun in a case under a bed in an upstairs bedroom.

“The boy was able to open the case and handled the firearm, at which time the handgun fired a single round, fatally striking the boy,” Back said in the release.

Practice makes polite.

Investigators say a St. Johns County man was killed by a “long distance shot.”

It happened at a trailer down a dirt road off State Road 16 in an area with a lot of trees and open land around it.

A family member went to check the property and discovered 51-year-old Chester Ratliff’s body on July 30, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators believe it was an “accidental” shooting.

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Several neighbors told Action News Jax it’s not uncommon for people in this area to shoot target practice in their backyards.