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Meet the gentleman who is doggedly polite.

A Sioux Falls man is accused of shooting his dog in the face with a handgun.

Police say 36-year-old Michael Schwarz was drunk when he shot the dog with a .44 Magnum. It is not clear if the shooting was intentional.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

Kevin Lee points out that, in NRA Paradise, there is no such thing as the common good.

Meanwhile, Chris Honore takes a tally:

Our shared reality is that some 30,000 people are killed by gun violence yearly, a number that surpassed traffic fatalities in 2015.

This level of violence separates America from all other advanced countries by a wide margin. Consider just homicides. According to the New York Times, in Poland and England one person per million dies in a gun homicide. In Japan it’s one person in 10 million. In the U.S. it’s 31 per million, or 27 people killed daily. In Chicago, over the recent Father’s Day weekend, 13 were killed and 56 wounded bringing the city’s total homicides thus far in 2016 to 300. If it were anything else (say, the Zika virus), this would be considered an epidemic of catastrophic proportions.

The hunt for politeness continues apace.

Nash had been squirrel hunting with friends along Lytle Boulevard, south of Vale. Nash was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked Ford Explorer while a second 17-year-old boy, also from Vale, was sitting behind him, Hicks said. The boy was reloading his .22 revolver, and the weapon fired.

The bullet travelled through the back of the front seat, where Nash was sitting. It entered his back and exited from his abdomen.

Don’t persons pay attention to where they are pointing their damned guns any more?

The stupid. It burns.

Expose children to politeness at a young age.

A 2-year-old New Boston, Texas, boy remains in the intensive care unit at Arkansas Children’s Hospital after an accidental shooting.

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According to the GoFundMe page, Jett found a .22 handgun while his mother was visiting a friend. According to the page, Jett fired the gun and a bullet hit him between his eyes and exited the top left side of his head.

There’s a GoFundMe page. How cute.

In related news, Daniel Ruth cuts to the quick. A snippet:

. . . it’s not “public safety” that drives the gun discussion. It’s paranoia dressed up in faux patriotism.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Politeness takes its toll on golden pond.

Officers explained that it appears as if a handgun was accidentally discharged inside the home on Golden Pond Avenue, with the bullet grazing the man’s wrist and hitting the woman in the neck.

Via Job’s Anger.

Woo the damsel of your desires with politeness.

A man in The Villages, Florida was arrested this week after he allegedly shot up the home of a woman who refused to have sex with him.

According to ClickOrlando.com, Sumter County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gun fire at the woman’s home and arrested 69-year-old Howard Sparber.

Deputies said that Sparber fired dozens of gunshots to gain entry to the house, but the woman turned out not to be home at the time.

Via C&L.

Politeness. It’s catching.

Reports indicated that the 23-year-old requested to see a Glock 22C .40-caliber handgun carried by the 20-year-old male.

Police said before handing the pistol to the 23-year-old, the 20-year-old man attempted to clear a live round from the firearm’s chamber and remove other bullets from the gun.

While taking out the magazine and attempting to eject a round, the gun apparently slipped out of the 20-year-olds’ hands. As he attempted to catch the gun, the pistol fired.

Afterthought:

Note how “he dropped the gun” somehow turned into “the gun slipped . . . out of his hands.”

Follow the reportage of gunnuttery closely and you will see it’s almost always the gun’s fault. It’s never the gun nut’s fault. The gun mysteriously “goes off” or “discharges” without intervention of human agency.

Words matter.

There is a reason that, some years ago, the National Safety Council stopped referring to automobile “accidents” and started referring to “crashes” in defensive driving courses (and I’ve taken a few–something do with reduced insurance rate). Until gun nuts are held responsible in the popular mind for their gunnuttery, gunnuttery will continue apace.

In related news, a letter-writer to The Roanoke Times reminds us that to the victor belong the spoils.

Video via Kos.

Ah, the blissful innocence of school days, school days, good old Golden Rule days, in NRA Paradise (emphasis added):

Denver Public Schools is asking for nearly $4 million in an upcoming bond request to outfit all of its classroom with locks that operate on a button function, allowing students and teachers to secure a room without having to go outside or frantically find a key in an emergency situation.

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The $4 million upgrade is intended to streamline the lockdown procedure in the event of an emergency such as an active shooter. No need to put someone outside, go digging through drawers for a key or rely on one adult in a room full of kids to get a classroom door locked if a threat is imminent in the halls, said Michael Eaton, chief of department safety for DPS.

Follow the link to learn more about the joys of youth in the line of fire.

(I wonder how many books $4,000,000.00 would buy?)

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise:

On Saturday, (gun store owner and gun safety advocate–ed.) Baker was fatally shot when a student in a concealed-carry class at KayJay Gun Shop accidentally discharged a weapon while practicing malfunction drills, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The bullet traveled through a wall and into an adjacent room, where Baker was struck in the neck, the paper reported.

Play the game.

Via Southern Beale.