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Politeness begins at home.

Police say a two-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in Waldorf on Wednesday afternoon with his father’s handgun.

We’ve been told the semi-automatic, loaded handgun was not placed in the gun cabinet, nor did it have the safety lock on, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office.

How is this not negligent homicide on the part of the parents?

Politeness seals friendships.

“It appears to be a case of accidental discharge,” said Cheryl Wright Kunard, Douglas County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman. “We are reviewing the reports to determine if any laws were broken.”

The victim — whose name has not been released — suffered a single gunshot wound to the leg, Murphree said. . . .

Witnesses told police the suspect was holding the gun when it fired and hit the victim, Murphree said. She noted the suspect and victim know each other.

Another great moment in politeness:

A father and son were killed in a shootout with another man and his son at a gun store Saturday in Pearl River County’s Henleyfield community.

Pearl River County deputies responding to the shooting on Mississippi 43 about 3:15 p.m. found the store owner and his son dead in the store, Chief Deputy Shane Tucker said.

The owner’s wife was working at the store when two customers, a man and his son, entered to pick up a firearm that had been repaired.

“There was some contention about a $25 fee,” Tucker said.

The police are still trying to figure who did what in what order, but it’s clear that politeness triumphed.

John Young cuts to the heart of the motivation for “open carry.”

When I was 10 I had a yo-yo. It was blue with marbled streaks of silver. At school we weren’t supposed to have yo-yos. But what’s the point of a yo-yo if one can’t show it off?

So I empathized with those who came to the Texas Capitol on New Year’s Day with fancy toys openly displayed on their hips and shoulders, from AR15s to the latest from the minds of Glock. Joyous they were. The fourth-graders had finally taken over.

He goes on to point out that there’s more to it; there’s also the bully factor. Follow the link for the rest.

In related news, there’s pistol porn on the Strip.

Politeness starts young.

A 2-year-old boy is hospitalized after he accidentally shot himself with a gun Saturday morning.

Dispatchers say the call came in around 12:30 a.m. The toddler accidentally shot himself with a gun in his home, located in the 2700 block of Edison Road in South Bend.

If he’s been packing, this wouldn’t have happ–oh, wait.

Be polite to your fellow cinema patrons.

Police say the shooter’s father called 911 Thursday night from his Newcastle home and told dispatchers his son was distraught and told him that he dropped his gun at a Renton movie theater and it discharged. The 29-year-old is now in custody.

“According to him, he said he dropped the gun and it went off. We have witnesses that say he came into the theater and appeared intoxicated. He went in and took a seat in theater number nine and was fumbling with a pistol when it went off and struck someone sitting in front of him,” said David Leibman with the Renton Police Department.

Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .

Via Job’s Anger.

The polite can be cocky (emphasis added).

When authorities arrived on the scene, they found 52-year-old Ricky Bolton of Mora, La., suffering from a gunshot wound to his thigh.

According to deputies, Bolton told them he was raking leaves at a relative’s house when the cocked .22 Magnum revolver in his pocket accidentally discharged, shooting him in his upper left thigh.

Maybe he was afraid he’d be attacked by a rogue pine cone or a ravenous squirrel.

Now, about those intelligence tests for buying a gu–oh, never mind.

Politeness: It’s just one of those things, one of those crazy things . . . .”

Neighbors say a 4-year-old boy was spending the night at his grandparents’ home when he was shot in the head overnight.

Detectives with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are working to answer how did this happen.

Maybe it was another of those magical guns that fires itself? The cops ain’t saying.

Politeness is a family matter:

Investigators said that two stepbrothers, a 20-year-old and a 15-year-old, were handing a handgun when the weapon accidentally discharged.

The older brother was handing the handgun over to the younger sibling when it accidentally fired and struck the teen in the torso.

The older sibling is the son of a member of the constable’s command staff and investigators said the pistol involved the shooting was the father’s weapon.

There is now one less brother.

Politeness takes practice.

A man is recovering after his wife accidentally shot him in the leg at an indoor firing range in north Colorado Springs.

Inculcate politeness at a young age.

Dubuque police said a 2-year-old shot in the face earlier this month was wounded when either he or another child accidentally fired a gun.

(snip)

“We have no information that an adult was responsible for the shooting and believe either the victim accidentally shot himself or one of the other children did,” Engleman wrote.

One is left to wonder whether it a was a minor who left the firearm where it could have been found by a toddler, as no “adult was responsible,” or perhaps, in addition to firing themselves, guns now are capable of leaving themselves in places.

More likely, it’s that “responsible gun owner” is now an oxymoron.

Another day in NRA Paradise:

Georta Mack, 14, was skipping school and snuck back in his home in the 1200 block of Blanchard Avenue through the basement when his dad shot him at about 6:30 a.m., Cincinnati Police Sgt. Joe Briede said.

“I just shot my son by accident,” Mack’s father told a 911 operator. “He scared me. I thought he was in school. I heard noise and then I went downstairs looking. He jumped out at me. I shot him.”

He’ll never skip school again.

My local rag tells the story of a “responsible gun owner.”

Just read it.

I have nothing to add.

Addendum:

Denouement.

Politeness is essential to proper parenting.

The 18-year-old was standing next to his father in a north Forsyth house about 5 p.m. Saturday as the 42-year-old cleaned the Smith & Wesson .40 pistol, according to Epifanio Rodriguez, a spokesman with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

His father accidentally shot the firearm, wounding the young man in his abdomen.

More spontaneous politeness . . .

Authorities say a 4-year-old girl has been wounded in an accidental shooting inside a suburban Buffalo home.

Police say the shooting occurred Sunday afternoon at a home in the Erie County town of Orchard Park, just south of Buffalo.

Officials say firearm accidentally discharged and a bullet struck the girl.

. . . and another rogue gun that mysteriously fired itself.

Just another day in Gun Nut Paradise.