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Provide children with the opportunity to learn politeness.

Police were called at 4:48 p.m. to a home in the 200 block of Alameda Avenue, Chief David Riviere said Thursday in a news release.

“Upon arrival, officers learned that a young child had shot their sibling accidentally with a handgun,” the chief said.

Yet another gun that fires itself.

Chief Lee Harmon said that David Gargrave, 33, of Covington, was killed when a shotgun that he was carrying inside his Regency Court apartment, accidentally discharged.

The gunnularity approacheth apace.

Politeness is a family value.

Investigators in South Windsor say a father accidentally shot his 23-year-old son while showing him a handgun.

All I want for Christmas is a little politeness . . . .

An 11-year-old boy was showing two girls a shotgun he got for Christmas when the gun went off and killed a 6-year-old girl who was visiting his Beaufort County home.

. . . . and a gun that fires itself.

Go the gun range. After all, practice makes perfect.

“Upon arrival emergency personnel learned that a 61-year-old employee (of the gun range–ed.) from Neptune had accidentally shot himself in the hand while retrieving a rental gun from a storage cabinet,” Staffordsmith wrote.

The bullet went through the man’s left hand and he went to a hospital in Brick “where he is expected to make a full recovery,” Staffordsmith said.

Perfectamundo!

Celebrate the New Year politely.

Usher in the New Year, politely.

The female told officers she was investigating a noise coming from the back of her home, when she slipped and discharged the firearm she had been holding.

Police investigated and confirmed the incident was accidental.

The hunt for politeness continues . . .

Bennett had just returned from hunting with a friend and an adult shortly after 6 p.m., Calhoun said. They apparently were passing around the firearm when it discharged accidentally. Bennett was shot in the upper abdomen and died at the scene, Calhoun said.

. . . as yet another gun fires itself.

The gunnularity approaches apace.

Give your children the opportunity to be polite.

Police say a 3-year-old girl on Cape Cod suffered a serious hand injury when she accidentally shot herself with a gun belonging to her father.

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Investigators said a loaded handgun had been left on a nightstand in a bedroom the girl shared with her parents. Several other guns were also found in the house.

In an relatively unusual circumstance, this has not been ruled a “tragic accident.” The father has been charged with several crimes related to unsafe handling of lethal weapons.

‘Twas the polite before Christmas . . . .

A man with a gunshot wound to his leg was treated at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem and then transfered to LVH-Cedar Crest. Whitehall police said the man accidentally shot himself and that his injury was not life-threatening.

Lap guns; they’re a thing. Sort of like lap dogs, but with a stronger bite.

McIver accidentally shot his wife Sunday, Sept. 25, while the couple was being driven in his car from their farm in Putnam County to their Buckhead residence, a family friend acting as a spokesperson told the Daily Report on Sept. 29.

McIver, who was in the back seat, had a gun resting in his lap for fear of carjackers, and it discharged when the car hit a bump as they traveled through Midtown, the friend, Bill Crane, has said. The bullet went through the front seat, where Diane McIver was sitting, and struck her in the back, according to media reports and accounts from Tex McIver’s spokespeople.

The stupid. It burns.

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Be polite to your furry friends.

A Tooele (Utah–ed.) man is facing multiple charges including animal cruelty after police say he got drunk and fired a gun in his house, accidentally shooting and killing his dog.

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Tooele City Police say Collins had set up a target in his back yard. He was firing at that target from inside his living room, through an open door. According to a search warrant, inside the home officers found several firearms, including a rifle, shot gun and pellet gun.

Politeness promotes pediatric precociousness.

A 3-year-old boy has been shot at a home on the southwest side of Tucson, authorities said. . . .

According to Tucson police, a 7-year-old boy found a gun and shot the other child. Bay said it appears the shooting was accidental.

Pals play politely.

Wichita police Lt. Jason Stephens said Monday that it appears Nautica Whittker fired at herself unintentionally while she and other teens were playing with a shotgun in the basement of a house in the 1300 block of North Erie around 2:15 a.m.

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“There aren’t any charges being brought against anyone right now,” Stephens said. “We no longer have a statute that really covers securing or the proper securing of weapons or things like that.”

Demonstrate courtesy when cruising the nation’s byways.

A 3-year-old boy was shot and killed during an apparent road rage incident in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday when his grandmother took him shopping, police said. . . .

The grandmother was at a stop sign when a confrontation ensued, police said.

A motorist behind the woman grew agitated that she was not moving quickly, Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Steven McClanahan said.

He started honking his horn. He got out of his car and fired shots inside the woman’s car, police said.

Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.

Play with your partner politely.

A 22-year-old Everett man is facing manslaughter charges after he says he accidentally shot his girlfriend in their Everett apartment Thursday night.

According to a report by KCPQ-TV in Seattle based on court records, Jonathan ‘John’ Duncan told officers he was playing with a handgun when it “went off” striking the unidentified woman in the chest. She later died at an area hospital.

Politeness builds strong marriages.

Startled, when the wife returned to the bedroom, the husband accidentally fired his weapon thinking his wife was an intruder.

The bullet grazed the wife’s ear and caused no serious injury.

Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.

A polite society is a clean society.

Bartholomew County Coroner Larry Fisher, who had attended school with the victim in North Vernon, said he pronounced Sporleder dead at the scene from an accidental gunshot wound to the chest. Sporleder was cleaning guns in the home with his son when the accidental shooting happened, Fisher said.

If you are cleaning a gun without first making sure it’s unloaded, that’s not an “accident.” That’s negligence.