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Politeness is a family value.

Authorities said two boys, four and six, were in a home on Falkirk Road near Rambelwood Road at the time of the shooting. The six-year-old pulled the trigger and shot his little brother in the upper body.

The child is expected to recover, and, no doubt, the family will be stronger for it.

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Stick politeness in your pants and carry it about with you (emphasis added).

Police say the man had a derringer-style pistol loaded with .410 buckshot when it accidentally discharged while secured in the front waistband of his pants.

The man suffered gunshot injuries to his groin and inner thigh and was transported by CareFlite ambulance to the Terrell Municipal Airport where an awaiting CareFlite medical helicopter further transported him to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

“Secured.”

Yeah.

Right.

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Be polite to your friends.

Around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, a resident on Seafare, a small street off of Seaglen Drive that leads into the complex, was showing off his gun to a visitor when the firearm accidentally discharged, said sheriff’s Lt. Steve Gill.

Anyone who knows how to handle firearms knows that there are only two types of discharges: “intentional” and “negligent.” “Accidental” is not an option.

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Be polite to the children.

The child’s father, Matthew Wezowicz, told KARK that a friend, Jeremiah Owens, came to his house to check on him and the child. Owens was looking at a gun that Matthew Wezowicz had recently bought but the gun went off, and the child was shot.

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Politeness shoots grammar in the foot (emphasis added):

An employee at the Llano County Sheriff’s Office accidentally shot their gun in an office on Friday.

The department says no one was injured in the incident. There was some damage, however, and the office will need a window replaced.

“An employee” “their”? Really?

Grammar is not an affectation. It is the rules of the road for discourse. Otherwise, said what doesn’t have you meaning.

Clearly, the author of this news story was weaving drunkenly down the road with his or her head up his or her cellphone, like the bozo who stuck me at a stoplight a couple of days ago.

Furrfu.

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May your firearm guide others to the stairway to heaven.

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Politeness must be carefully taught.

Mary Knowlton, 73, a former librarian at Parkview Elementary School, was participating in a two-hour training course Aug. 9, 2016, in Punta Gorda, Fla. Her trainer, Coel, was demonstrating a shoot-don’t-shoot scenario and fired what he thought were blanks at Knowlton.

The gun was loaded. Knowlton was shot and pronounced dead that night at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla.

The trainer, police officers, have been charged.

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Exercise politeness on the public thoroughfares.

Around 6 p.m. New Roads Police responded to the scene of a reported accidental shooting on Highway 10. According to the New Roads Police Chief, four teens were traveling in a vehicle on their way back from the Mardi Gras parades in New Roads.

Police say the four were playing with a gun when it accidentally discharged, shooting one of the four in the neck. The shooting suspect was also shot in the finger.

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Get a leg up on politeness.

Witnesses say one of the victims accidentally discharged a gun, striking himself in the leg. A bullet fragment then hit the other victim in the ankle.

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Friends are polite to each other.

He and three other teenage boys took a family member’s firearm, said Shari Ireton, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

(snip)

Deputies were told the 15-year-old was handling the gun when it accidentally fired. A 17-year-old was struck in the arm. His injuries weren’t life-threatening.

The 15-year-old boy panicked, Ireton said. He dropped the gun and ran.

And another gun that fires itself . . . .

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Suffer the children.

Yet another sacrifice to the NRA’s portable penis.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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As ye proceed through thy day,
Scatter politeness along thy way.

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The hunt for politeness continues apace.

The victim, whose identity had not been released, and his father were hunting deer with two friends when one of the friends, a 41-year-old man from Forked River in Lacey Township, shot him, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s office.

When you go deer hunting, be sure to cover up your little furry white tail. After all, why else might your hunting companion mistake you for a deer?

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And a polite society is a clean society.

“One subject reported that he was cleaning his firearm and it discharged, striking both himself and the male seated next to him,” Nashua police Sgt. Andrew Karlis said in a statement. “Both subjects are reported to be in stable condition.”

Whenever I cleaned my guns, I first made sure they were not loaded.

Why? Because I’m not stupid.

I am sometimes thoughtless, inconsiderate, selfish, preoccupied, self-centered, conceited (as I was informed in the sixth grade), full of myself, occasionally arrogant, and headstrong.

But not stupid.

It seems that NRA Paradise is peopled by the stupid.

Afterthought:

Why is it that, in police reports, men become “males” and women become “females”? (I know that men and women are “males” and “females,”–when I was a teenager, my parents gave me a book on The Facts of Life and Love for Teenagers* that informed me of that startling fact–but, really, now, synonyms and all that . . . .)

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Play politely.

A Mesa 15-year-old remains in extremely critical condition after he was accidentally shot in the chest by a friend. . . .
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The victim’s brother told police that he witnessed the shooting, and saw 20-year-old Ulises Sanchez holding a gun when it went off, striking the victim in the chest. He reportedly told police that appeared to him that the shooting was accidental.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

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Walk politely.

According to authorities, when confronted with the concern that evidence did not match the man’s story, along with the need to call in additional resources for the safety of the public, the man admitted he had not been truthful.

Deputies learned the man lost control of his vehicle and it rolled. He began walking toward a friend’s house, but slipped on the icy road, fell and briefly lost consciousness after hitting his head. The man explained he was armed with a handgun which accidentally discharged during the fall, striking him in the arm.

Had he been packing, no doubt this would not have happene–oh, wait.

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A polite society is a clean society.

Just before 10:30 p.m., police responded to a call in the 2300 block of Ocean Beach Highway. One man, identified as 88-year-old Zacharias Smart of Kelso, was cleaning a gun when it discharged and injured his hand. The bullet exited his hand and stuck the leg of his friend, 87-year-old Kelin Ray of Longview, according to Chris Blanchard, a public information officer with the Longview Police Department.

“Zacharias Smart” seems like a bit of a misnomer, does it not?

The stupid. It burns.

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This time, it wasn’t the little furry white tail.

These fellows were duck hunting, so it must have been the feathers.

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Politeness is a family value.

Authorities said Gina Williams was home early from an overnight shift at work and was trying to get in the front door. One of the children inside the home thought someone was trying to break in, and woke Billy Williams.

Billy Williams then got a gun from a safe, opened the front door and fired one shot, authorities said. The front porch light was not on.

No charges have been filed because hey! stuff happens.

“Shoot first,” the first rule in NRA Paradise.

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