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Bid your good-nights politely.

Mr. Swaha told police he had been on his couch watching television Thursday shortly before the incident happened. When he got up to go to bed and picked up his handgun by its holster. The weapon fell from the holster and hit a coffee table, firing a round.

Mr. Swaha saw a bullet hole in the wall and called 911. He knocked on the door of an adjacent apartment but was told by a woman who came out to investigate the noise that no one lives there. The woman checked the next apartment down and a bloody man answered.

Ah, to rest in the arms of Morpheus in NRA Paradise . . . .

Play politely in the park.

An 8-year-old boy is hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself in the foot.

It happened just after 5:00 p.m. Wednesday at Chelten Avenue and Ardleigh Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

Police say the boy found a gun while walking in the park and picked it up.

Another playful day in the NRA Playground.

Polite play placates participants, perchance permanently.

A 14-year-old was arrested Wednesday after police say he admitted to playing with a gun before accidentally shooting and killing his 15-year-old friend.

Prototypical wingnut Bible discovered.

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Martin Murray, 26, of 25 Pine St., suffered entry and exit wounds to his upper thigh on his left leg, according to police. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Emergency crews responded to 25 Pine St. around 3:30 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from Murray, who said he had shot himself in the leg with a .22-caliber revolver. Police said Murray was outside on his porch when they arrived, and he told them the incident was accidental.

Politeness must be inculcated from the early years.

Police in central Ohio say a 3-year-old girl was shot and critically hurt when a 4-year-old girl apparently picked up and discharged a gun that had been left within her reach.

WCMH-TV (http://bit.ly/1IHSRIt ) in Columbus reports the younger child was struck in the neck when the gun discharged Tuesday morning in a neighborhood just west of downtown.

Another day of personal protection in NRA Paradise.

Politeness is a moving experience.

A child died Monday night in Boyd County after police said she accidentally shot herself.

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According to the girl’s brother, the shooting happened while the family was moving into their home and unpacking their belongings.

Play politely.

A 16-year-old girl died Sunday morning in Putnam County after a teenage boy was playing with a loaded shotgun and it went off, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Rayne Michelle-Marie Dettmann was shot in the upper body by the 16-year-old boy about 4:30 a.m. with a 12 gauge shotgun at her Pomona Park home. The boy had retrieved the shotgun from inside her home and first pointed it at two other friends. He then pointed it at her and pulled the trigger, deputies said.

The polite mail it in.

Bachart admitted that on Dec. 2, 2014, she sent a package with a loaded Ruger Blackhawk .357 revolver and ammunition into the mail at a post office in McCall. The package was sent to an address in Windsor, Connecticut.

While in route to Connecticut, the package arrived at a processing and distribution center in Springfield, Massachusetts. When a U.S. Postal Service employee picked up the package, the gun discharged. The employee was not seriously injured, but sought medical attention for ringing ears and stinging hands.

Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .

Via Southern Beale.

Canadians live up to their reputation for politeness.

Acting Det. Martin Taylor told Metro police responded to the scene on the 100 block of Woodford Crescent S.W. just before 11 p.m. where a man said he had been shot while inside his home.

Taylor said shortly after police received another call from a neighbour who said they had “accidentally discharged a firearm inside their residence.”

Works of politeness were performed in the passive voice (emphasis was added).

Deputies responded to a home on Clinard Road in Barren Plains around 4 p.m. Wednesday and said they found 15-year-old Justin McGhee had been shot once with a .22-caliber rifle.

Police said they tried to resuscitate him until paramedics arrived. McGhee later died from his injuries at Northcrest Medical Center.

According to the sheriff’s office, they believe the rifle was accidentally discharged while it was being unloaded.

Afterthought:

I’m mildly surprised the story didn’t say that “dying took place.”

Conduct yourself with courtesy at the entrance to the emporium.

A man waiting as his wife shopped at North Georgia Premium Outlets Saturday was rushed to an area hospital after he reportedly shot himself in the leg.

Dawson County Emergency Services officials said the incident, which occurred about 6:40 p.m. inside his car in the parking lot, was ruled accidental.

Now, about those intelligence tests for possessing firearms . . . .

Practice makes politeness.

Pennsylvania State Police said that Brianna McNees, 19, of New Waterford, Ohio, sustained non-life threatening injuries in the accidental shooting. Police said she was struck in the left shoulder by a bullet which ricocheted at about 12:45 p.m.

When you hit and then run from the scene of an accident, do so with politeness.

Politeness is essential when one is sojourning at the lodging house.

A 10-year-old was taken to the hospital after he was accidentally shot by another child inside a hotel room in north Nashville.

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Police said the three kids were playing with a cap gun when one of them picked up a real gun and accidentally shot the victim.

Play politely.

An 8-year-old boy died in an apparent accidental shooting Thursday, police said. It was at least the sixth such shooting of a child and at least the fourth death in Harris County this year. . . .

Also in the room at the time was an older boy, 11. He told Houston police investigators that he and the 8-year-old were tossing a pistol back and forth when it suddenly fired. The younger boy was struck in the head and died at the scene.

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Upon arrival to N. Vinity Road, White County deputies found a 14-year-old boy with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. According to reports, the shooting is believed to be accidental.

Carnage continues in NRA Paradise.

Via Mother Jones.

jason330 explains how the media will cover the next mass shooting.