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Politeness is a family thing.

Police responding to a report of an accidental shooting at a Norwich apartment just after 8 p.m. Monday found 58-year-old Dianna Hodgdon with a gunshot wound to the upper torso.

She was pronounced dead after emergency responders arrived at the scene.

Police say an initial investigation led them to suspect the shooting was not accidental.

Aside:

As one of my two or three commenters has pointed out, there is no such thing as an “accidental” shooting.

Intentional or negligent, but not accidental. There are no other choices.

On the road, make sure you have the polite-of-way.

According to police, the victim, 26-year-old Demario Thompkins, exchanged words with the other driver after the minor accident near Greenfield. That’s when police say the other driver pulled a gun and shot the man in the head.

Police say Thompkins’ girlfriend and his one-year-old son were in the car when he was shot and killed but were unharmed.

The polite build families at the confluence of guns and stupid.

Police said the man is a concealed carry permit holder and was preparing to go target shooting when the incident occurred.

He was removing the magazine from the 9 mm handgun when a round was discharged and struck his wife (in the ankle–ed.), according to police.

Note how the phrasing implies that the weapon somehow mysteriously fired itself all on its ownsome.

If it was an accident, why was he pointing the damn gun in the general direction of another person?

Politeness builds strong families 12 ways.

A shooting in Rankin County leaves a five-year-old girl hospitalized after deputies say her nine-year-old brother pulled the trigger.

Just collateral damage in NRA Paradise . . . .

Leonard Pitts, Jr., thinks it’s “game over.”

“In retrospect,” wrote Hodges, “Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”

You may cringe to hear the nation’s response to the December 2012 massacre of 20 young children — six school staff members also died — at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., described in that fashion, but you can’t deny the brutal truth of the observation.

Follow the link for the rest.

Face up to the need for politeness.

Newport News police are investigating an accidental shooting Tuesday evening after a 45-year-old woman had been shot in the face, according to a news release.

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Get a load of politeness.

The sister of two men killed by gunfire late Sunday in Opelousas told authorities that one brother killed himself after he accidentally shot and killed the other, according to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Joshua Miller, 27, of New Roads, picked up what he thought was an unloaded handgun and fatally shot his younger brother, 25-year-old Jeremiah Miller, of Ventress, in the chest . . . .

A polite society is a clean society.

Vermont State Police say a 9-year-old girl has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit after her father accidentally shot her in the stomach while cleaning a .22-caliber handgun.

And a clean society, it seems, is a stupid society.

Southern Beale points out the inconsistencies (follow the link for the entire post).

No one wants to politicize a tragedy but no one also ever points out that calling for arming teachers, National Guard recruiters, airplane pilots, etc. is doing just that.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Politeness is a family affair.

North College Hill police said the child’s 17-year-old brother was pulling the magazine oh (sic) his handgun when the weapon fired a bullet that hit a wall, grazing the 11-year-old on the right side.

The kid may have been using a magazine, but authorities are throwing the book at him.

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Politeness: It’s just how you play the game.

Gamers, guns, and bloodlust–the American Dream.

We are beyond hope.

Even if persons get too close to you, show politeness.

Upon leaving the store, Michelle Dupree found that someone had parked too close to her truck, Renton police accounts say.

Dupree reportedly waited for the driver. When he emerged from the store and got into the driver’s seat of his car, she started yelling at him and initiated an argument, court documents say.

The man backed out of the parking lot and started to drive away, but the two continued to argue. The man reportedly yelled, “I’m a man” out of his car window, probable cause records say, prompting Dupree to reply, “Well, I’m a woman. That’s why I have an equalizer.”

Dupree allegedly retrieved a handgun from her truck, pointed it at the man and walked toward his car as he tried to leave the parking lot.

Another day in NRA Paradise . . . .

A report from the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office says Phonisay’s cousin heard a gunshot around 11 p.m. Thursday but initially thought it was from a video game. She later heard her cousin calling for help.

The medical examiner says Phonisay apparently was posing with his gun and it discharged when he went to holster it. A round was fired into his right groin, striking his femoral artery.

School others in politeness.

Police in Florida say a woman fatally shot her boyfriend by accident while he was teaching her to use a rifle. The shooting happened early Thursday in their Daytona Beach Shores apartment.

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

A 25-year-old man with a gun accidentally shot himself in the chest Wednesday night. . . .When officers arrived, the victim said he had shot himself by accident and pleaded for help. He was taken to a local hospital to treat non-life-threatening injuries.

Children, be polite to your parents.

You may now worship at Our Lady of the Winchester.

Words fail me, except to point out the obvious: these people are nuts.

Be polite to your mother.

The GBI said the mother and son were in the car parked in front of their home on Cutter Road near Douglas.

According to a report, the child found the gun in the car and thought it was a toy.

That’s when he picked it up and pulled the trigger.