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Politeness is child’s horse play.

Mt. Morris Township police Chief Terence Green said the victim was driven via a personally-owned vehicle to Hurley for treatment of a gunshot wound she sustained to her leg during the incident.

The 18-year-old and a 14-year-old male sibling “may have been horse playing with the gun when it went off,” said Green, according to witness accounts and a preliminary investigation by township police.

Had the 18-year-old had been packing, no doubt she could have returned fire, the causalities would have canceled each other out, and no one would have been injured.

Or something.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

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Practice politeness doggedly.

“We heard gunshots at eight this morning. Usually Tucker’s (one of her pet dogs–ed.) the first one in the house and he didn’t come up. So I went out and looked and couldn’t find him,” Harrell said.

The worry set in and Harrell followed Tucker’s brother Jinx into the nearby woods. That is when she saw Tucker’s lifeless body laying on the ground.

“He has one in the leg and two in the stomach. One in the chest and one in the ear. All I could do is cry. I carried him back up here. Shot five times at close range,” Harrell said.

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Share your politeness with your friends.

Deputies said a 22-year-old man was cleaning his 9 mm handgun and showing his 20-year-old girlfriend how to safely handle a weapon when the gun fired. He suffered a graze injury to his leg and she was struck in the thigh, calf and foot and treated at Bronson Battle Creek.

er, yeah.

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Politeness is a family affair.

During the investigation it was determined that a family member had accidentally fired the handgun, officials say. They did not disclose whether that individual was male or female, or whether the person was an adult or child.

This is the second accidental shooting involving a child in Jackson County over the past several weeks. In the other incident, a youngster sat on a weapon and received a minor injury to the buttocks but is recovering fully.

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Title: Fundamentalist Cultures.  Image:  Iranian praying to Allah, citizen of Myanmar bowing before statue of Buddha, Saudi Arabian praying to Allah, Uncle Sam worshiping a golden statue of a gun.

Via Job’s Anger.

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And another gun fires itself . . . .

Officers said they discovered the victim with a gunshot wound to the hand. He was then transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Reports indicate the victim stated he was holding* a handgun when it suddenly discharged. This resulted in the ring finger on his left hand almost completely detaching.

________________

One suspects that “fondling” would be a more precise term.

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Anyone can stumble over politeness.

Police southeast of Houston say a 4-year-old child has died after he found a handgun in the bedroom of a home and accidentally shot himself.

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Washington State is currently considering a bill to regulate bump stocks, such as the one used in the Law Vegas shooting. The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat is not sanguine about its chances of passage.

The issue of guns causes America to lose its faculties. Nowhere was that on more vigorous display than during a gun-control debate this past week in our state Legislature.

It was a 20-minute tour of the absurd rhetorical lengths to which the gun-rights crowd will go to try shooting down even the most modest attempts at slowing the country’s mass-shooting carnage.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Politeness is child’s play.

“The 13-year-old learned the combination of the gun safe, and took out a Marlin .22 rifle from the safe,” said Sheriff Nathan Dreckman.

The rifle was loaded and unloaded multiple times, but at one point the gun fired when the boys thought it was unloaded.

“Unfortunately, there was still one round in the chamber and the rifle discharged,” Dreckman said.

The 8-year-old boy was hit in the face below the left nostril.

. . . and another gun that fired itself.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Discovering politeness in unexpected places.

A 4-year-old boy is in critical condition after police say he accidentally shot himself.

Authorities say the child was shot in the face around 4:30 p.m. in Warren.

According to police the child found the gun in a car.

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Teacher reading to class from

Via Job’s Anger.

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Politeness is a family affair.

Rex William Pruett was shot at his father’s home in Campbellsburg, a small Indiana town located about 50 miles northwest of Louisville, Kentucky. Rex, a seventh-grader at Orleans Junior-Senior High School, died a short time after his father rushed him to a hospital.

“The father received a phone call and, while he was on the phone, the daughter, in what appeared to be unintentional (sic), shot her brother with a .22-caliber revolver,” Indiana State Police spokesman Chad Dick told The Times-Mail in Bedford.

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Be polite to your friends.

Woodcock’s best friend, 21-year-old Richard Skillman, was at the party.

“From what I heard, they were best of friends,” Gomez said.

Woodcock and the other party-goers apparently had been drinking alcohol before he went back to his bedroom.

“He went into his bedroom, came back out, had a handgun, the handgun went off and struck Mr. Skillman in the chest,” Gomez said.

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It’s All Relative 0

Sweden considers a murder rate of 43 (not 43 per something, 43) to be too high.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Bask in reflected politeness.

Troopers said a 16-year-old boy was accidentally shot when a gun went off. A teen was looking at the gun with an adult when troopers said the bullet ricocheted, injuring the teenage boy.

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Be polite to your neighbors.

According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, the man said he was taking items from a dresser drawer where he keeps his loaded 9mm handgun when it accidentally fell to the floor. When he picked up the gun to inspect it for damage, he discharged it. The bullet went through several walls in his home and then hit the front door of the home across the street. No one was inside the neighbor’s home at the time, but they were notified of the incident by the sheriff’s office.

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Politeness is a family affair.

Authorities say a 6-year-old boy accidentally shot and wounded his 7-year-old sister while playing with a gun in southwest Missouri.

(snip)

The Springfield News-Leader reports that the release says an adult guest at the home unknowingly dropped the gun.

Hey, Mr. Responsible Gun Owner, how do you “unknowingly” drop a gun?

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite at parties.

An accidental shooting at a party in Southeast Rochester leads to one woman being hospitalized.

(snip)

Police say a male was handling a long gun when it fired and struck Ijong.

My opinion is that males should not play with their portable penises–or, for that matter, any other penises–in the presence of others.

Furrfu.

Afterthought:

Notice how a man becomes a “male” and a child becomes a “juvenile” and a woman becomes a “female” in police-speak?

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Commit random acts of politeness.

The Utah County Sheriff said in a statement that the incident occurred after a 17-year-old picked up a rifle from a bed. The rifle reportedly had a round jammed in the chamber, which dislodged and fired when the firearm was picked up.

Whatever happened to “Make sure never to point a gun at anyone”?

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Be polite to your fellow employees.

Police said two employees at Reliable Fence got into an altercation and one of the men pulled a gun. Authorities said the argument between the employees has been an ongoing dispute.

A 34-year-old man was shot twice in the back as he ran away, according to police.

Other employees jumped on the gunman and one man was fatally shot during the scuffle.

“After the initial person got shot, the other employees ran over and were trying to wrestle the gun from the shooter,” Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle. “The gun then went off and shot the business owner.”

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