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A party guest must conduct himself with politeness.

An Ohio man is facing charges he threatened to kill everyone at a Pike Days party in May in Somerset Township.

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The alleged victims told police Ursic became angry when a band was making fun of him and left in his pickup truck about 2 a.m. May 20. Two women at the party went to investigate after hearing what sounded like a vehicle accident shortly after Ursic left, according to court documents.

They found debris and Ursic sitting in his truck along a road that went into the woods. They told police Ursic pointed a shotgun at them and said, “You’re dead to me.” They later saw Ursic driving past the party several times, the record indicates.

Aside:

No, I hadn’t heard of “Pike Days” either.

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There’s no politeness like inadvertent politeness.

A Forsyth man and a friend escaped serious injury after he accidentally fired a gun inside his home on June 23, shooting both himself and his friend.

It might be wise for gun nuts to learn about how guns work.

The stupid. It burns.

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Show a polite hand.

Police said that in the early morning hours of Jan. 28, they were notified of an accidental discharge of a firearm that occurred in the parking lot of building 4 of the Fox Run Apartments on Flintlock Road.

When they arrived, police found Dotson with a single gunshot wound to his left hand.

If he had had another gun, perhaps he could have shot back at himself in self defense.

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Rekha Basu recently took the Iowa “concealed carry” test and qualified for a permit, even though she has never touched a firearm. She wrote of her experience in the Des Moines Register. Here’s a bit:

Under Iowa law as of 2011, these courses can be offered by the National Rifle Association or instructors certified by it. Keep in mind, that’s a lobby group that wants to scrap most gun laws. That may help explain why the test I took listed the statements “Make laws banning handguns” or “Stay away from handguns” as the wrong answers to the question, “How to avoid the two main causes of handgun related accidents; ignorance and carelessness.”

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Practice random acts of politeness.

Palm Beach County Sheriff’s investigators say Ramdass was shot and killed in an accidental shooting in the Holey Land Wildlife Management Area near the Broward-Palm Beach County line Wednesday evening.

He was with two family members at the time. Investigators believe the person who fired the gun may not even know that they hit someone.

Detectives want to find out who fired the fatal shot.

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Small acts of politeness can deliver a bang.

Chief Deputy Mike Lambert said at 1485 Jack Springs Rd., on Sunday afternoon, a Samuel Eli Williams, 57, of 11259 Cactus Court, Elberta, was with family trying to sort through items left from a property will.

While another family member was opening a 45 caliber derringer pistol, the gun accidentally discharged and struck Williams in the left hand and left thigh, Lambert said.

Whatever happened to concept of making sure a gun isn’t pointed at anyone?

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Be polite to your friends.

Montez reportedly woke up in the middle of the night and heard loud noises that he thought were gunfire and unknown people talking nearby,” the sheriff’s office said in a report. “Montez retrieved his handgun when he saw a person cross through the campground. Montez fired his weapon in the direction of the person who was later identified as his friend, Moody.”

Moody was taken to the hospital for treatment for a gunshot wound, the sheriff’s office said. He was pronounced dead shortly after 3 a.m.

If Mr. Moody had been packing, he no doubt could have returned fire.

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Perpetually packing politeness perpetuates personal propriety (also, pigs, wings).

Quick action from U.S. Park Police personnel might have prevented a Shippensburg, Pa., man’s injuries from being worse after he shot himself in the leg Saturday afternoon at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Benjamin Hornberger, 23, suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg after his revolver discharged, according to Sgt. Anna Rose, spokeswoman for the U.S. Park Police.

. . . and another gun that seems to have fired all on its ownsome.

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Thus passeth another life day in the NRA Garden of Earthly Delights:

Jackson Police were called to a west Jackson home early Saturday morning where they found 5-year-old Jayden Pempleton shot. Investigators believe it was self-inflicted wound.

According to the report, it was just one of those things, just one of those crazy things . . . .

“We have questioned the father of this individual and we also questioned other individuals at the house at the time of the shooting, based on all the evidence we have this time it appears to be an accidental shooting,” said Commander Jones. “It is a very tragic situation and our hearts go out to family at this time as well. It is under investigation, of course we are not ruling anything out.”

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Inculcate politeness from a tender age.

A 4-year-old boy shot in a Burton home is recovering after what investigators believe was an accidental shooting.

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The boy’s mother told deputies she picked her son up off the living room floor and saw he was bleeding. She then loaded him into her car and drove to Beaufort Memorial hospital. The boy was later flown to MUSC (Medical University of South Carolina–ed.), according to the Sheriff’s Office.

And so begins another day in NRA Paradise.

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Show politeness to your fellow motorists.

“Route 100 South drops down from two lanes to one lane where it merges into Route 202,” Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said during a press conference Thursday night. “At that point her car started jostling with a red pickup truck. Not actually hitting but both of them trying to merge together.”

Police said the driver of the pickup truck then pulled out a gun in a fit of road rage and shot Roberson in the head, killing her instantly. Roberson’s car went off the side of the road and crashed into a wooded area. The driver of the pickup truck fled the scene down the shoulder of the road on Route 202 and continued onto Paoli Pike.

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Politeness is a family value.

A northwestern Indiana man said he was showing a handgun to his sons and telling them to never play with it “because it can kill someone” when he accidentally shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter, according to court records.

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Authorities said the 33-year-old father was showing his sons a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun when he inadvertently shot Olivia as she walked into the room. Hummel told the 911 dispatcher he didn’t realize the gun was loaded when he pulled the trigger.

Just another day in Gun Nut Eden.

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Politeness is child’s play.

A 9-year-old Indianapolis boy was killed when a gun he and his friend were playing with discharged, police said Tuesday.

Police said the boy, identified by the Marion County coroner’s office as Mykah Jackson, and his friend found the unsecured gun Monday night at an apartment complex on the city’s north side and were playing with it when it accidentally fired, striking the boy in the face.

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Paradise of a Plethora Portable Penises.

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Practice makes polite.

Sig Sauer Academy’s firing ranges facing Route 101 have been shut down after a state police investigation found that bullets were falling onto the highway.

State police announced the range closure Monday following an investigation that began in April when Kristen Burke of Hampton reported that a bullet had struck her windshield while she was traveling westbound between Exits 7 and 8.

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Take politeness to the birthday party.

A man who showed up at the St. Charles Bend ER with a gunshot wound to the leg Saturday night prompted an investigation that led to the arrest of another man who unintentionally fired the shot during a children’s birthday party at his home, police said.

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Investigating officers learned the man, Michael Mostek, was at a children’s birthday party when he was unintentionally shot by Beau Lewis, 37, of Bend, at Lewis’s home, McConkey said.

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Practice random acts of politeness.

Homicide investigators said it all started with a crash between two vehicles near the location.

The occupants of the vehicles were in an argument when shots were fired by a third person. Officials said the gunshots appear to have been directed at the occupants but they were not struck.

The victim was riding his bicycle toward the scene of the collision when he was hit by gunfire in the upper torso, investigators said, and he died at the scene.

They added it did not appear he was an intended target.

Disabuse yourself of any notion that the United States of America is at heart a civilized society.

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Just another day in NRA Paradise.

Police say a 2-year-old boy has died in an apparently accidental shooting in Yell County.

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A news release from the sheriff’s department says family members told deputies they saw the boy playing in the hallway of the home, then heard the gun discharge. The family told police they were not sure how the child reached the gun, which is normally stored on top of a cabinet in a bedroom.

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Little boy in toy car with rifle in gun rack:  My parents are preparing me for the future.  Little girl in toy hearse:  So are mine.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Politeness is a family value.

A 3-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself early Tuesday afternoon. The Macomb Daily reported that the toddler was rushed to McLaren Macomb Hospital by his mother after the shooting.

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Keep an eye out for politeness.

An 11-year-old boy was taken to the hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the eye, according to Orange County Fire Rescue.

Firefighters said the boy shot himself at a home on North Pine Hills Road shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday.

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