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Afterthought:

I do not agree with those who complain that the press has not referred to the shooter as a “terrorist.” True, he created terror, but a “terrorist” is someone who uses terror to advance a cause.

As I write this, reports indicate that he appears to have been apolitical.

The only cause in which he was interested seems to have been ammosexual release.

Dick Polman comments on the latest mass shooting in the United States (follow the link for the rest):

I can’t precisely pinpoint when America fully surrendered to benumbed insanity, but I’ll put my money on Sandy Hook. Once we decided that even the slaughter of little suburban kids was acceptable collateral damage, we crossed the line and sold our souls. There is no going back.

Aside:

Speaking of the banality of evil, consider how blandly horrifying is the phrase, “the latest mass shooting.”

Politeness takes practice.

Deputies say an 8-year-old boy has died after being shot in the chest while family members were shooting tin cans at their home in Liberty County.

Expose children to politeness (emphasis added).

A 4-year-old boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head Thursday afternoon, police have confirmed.

(snip)

Captain Kevin Riley of the Parma Police Department says that it appears the boy gained possession of a gun that was inside the car and appears to have accidentally shot himself with it. Police believe that the shooting was an accident and no foul play is suspected.

“Gained possession of a gun” seems a somewhat convoluted way of saying “some jerk negligently left an unsecured firearm lying about.”

A polite society is a clean society.

An Apple Valley father apparently shot his 2-year-old daughter late Wednesday night when his gun discharged in what investigators described as a cleaning accident.

(snip)

Investigators believe the girl’s father was downstairs cleaning a gun when it was negligently discharged and struck the girl in an upstairs bedroom.

Aside:

I doubt seriously that the gun “negligently discharged” itself.

Furrfu.

Expose the children to politeness.

Police say two young children were wounded in an apparently accidental shooting at a home that was being used for childcare in suburban Detroit.

(snip)

Haddad says they were wounded by a gun that was kept in the Dearborn home, but there are “questions about who pulled the trigger.” The circumstances are under investigation.

(Link fixed.)

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Police said the man was in a truck parked in the 1000 block of East Center Street around 10:15 a.m. when he decided to disassemble a .45-caliber pistol. The gun had a round in the chamber and while the man was taking the firearm apart it discharged, wounding him in the leg, police said.

Demonstrate politeness to your progeny.

Deputies learned the father was in a bedroom and removed a rifle from a gun safe, removed the magazine, tried to eject a round and the gun went off, grazing the boy’s left arm and entering the left side of his chest and side area.

Guns and stupid.
Guns and stupid.
They go together
Like love and Cupid.

Robert Pickford thought the Ruger handgun was unloaded when he picked it up, pointed it in his best friend’s direction and squeezed the trigger, he told police.

He was wrong.

Give your family a treat of politeness.

A 4-year-old Florida girl died after accidentally pulling the trigger of a gun when she reached into her grandmother’s purse for candy.

Politeness is child’s play.

Police in Franklin County’s Madison Township were called to a home around 9 a.m. Sunday for a boy with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a Columbus children’s hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police say the boy’s father told officers he keeps a loaded gun in the kitchen.

Give politeness priority to promote proper parenting.

According to charging papers in court, the boy sustained the burns after his father shot him with “flaming pellets” from a fireworks gun.

The Morning New Tribune reported the boy’s mother took the child to a Tacoma hospital for the injuries July 6th. She told police that she’d heard a bang from a gun while she was in the shower and when she got out, the child had been injured and was screaming.

Practice random acts of politeness.

According to the girl’s father, the family was playing soccer at the park when the teenager was shot in the leg. The father declined to do an on-camera interview with KATV, but described the injury saying that a crossbow arrow that appears to be for deer hunting pierced the front of her leg, went through her shin and poked out through the back of her leg. The girl’s brother was standing right next to her when she was shot, according to the father.

If the young lady had been packing, no doubt this would not have happened.

Just another day in NRA Paradise.

Don’t hog the politeness.

The coroner said he believes the shooter was using a thermal detection scope and mistook the victim for a hog, however this information has not yet been confirmed by investigators.

Coroner Charlie Boseman identified the victim as 40-year-old Kenneth Jason Young of Starr. Boseman said a couple was out hunting when they spotted something, which Boseman said was later determined to be the victim, on all fours crawling around through the thermal scope, and then shot.

Does your politeness pass inspection?

Arriving at the scene, they found several adults including a 61-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the shoulder. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His condition was not immediately available.

Officials say it appears a 35-year-old man was inspecting a rifle when it went off. Witnesses told investigating officers it was an accidental shooting and there was no reported altercation before the gunfire.

Recreate politely.

According to Pasco Police, the woman, and the man who shot her, both have concealed pistol licenses. They were planning on shooting recreationally later that day. While they were both in the car, the man was reassembling the victim’s pistol when it went off, shooting him through the hand. The bullet then went through the woman’s right arm, and then her chest, causing severe internal injuries.

According to the story, the authorities have once again forgotten their vocabularly words and confused “accidentally” with “negligently.”

Get a leg up on politeness.

When someone comes to help you, treat him or her with politeness.

Jesus Esquivel, 63, confessed to fatally shooting the man over the amount of time it took for AAA to get him assistance, the Miami Herald reports.

In a video taken across the street from his Kendall home, a man, believed to be Esquivel, is seen walking up to the AAA contract worker, who is wearing a dark baseball cap and standing behind a white pick up truck. After the two men appear to have a brief argument, the man who approached the worker shoots the worker several times, stands over his body and walks away.