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Yet another responsible gun owner facilitates youthful hijinks in a polite manner.

A 7-year-old LaGrange, Ga. boy was shot in the back in an accidental shooting on Sunday morning.

The victim and two other young children were playing in a room together and one of them found a loaded gun, the Ledger-Enquirer reported. The victim was shot by one of the other children.

Politeness requires class.

A 23-year-old man accidentally shot himself during a gun safety class at a pawn shop, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

(snip)

The gun went off accidentally and the bullet grazed his leg, Hopkins said.

. . . and yet another gun that goes off on its own without reported intervention of human agency.

Afterthought:

I guess this aspiring Wyatt Earp is now a pawn star.

And, in more news of the polite . . . .

Play politely.

Marathon County Chief Deputy Chad Billeb said the boys were playing outside in the rural town of Reid when the older boy grabbed the .22-caliber pistol in a “terrorist manner” and it went off, hitting his cousin in the face.

Billeb said investigators don’t believe the boys intended for anyone to get hurt.

Daniel Ruth is not sanguine about the move, which will likely be successful because it’s Florida, in Florida to allow hunting in state parks. A snippet:

Don’t you suspect Tallahassee will never rest until there is virtually no corner of the state (with the sole exception of the Florida Legislature) where guns won’t be a ubiquitous, obnoxious presence?

What family will visit a state park, stroll through the woods, perhaps kayak down a stream, or enjoy a bit of bird-watching knowing they will have to deal with the possibility of running into some fully armed yahoo in hot pursuit of capping a raccoon?

Fetishes are compelling. Fetishists can’t help themselves.

Ammosexuals will not rest until every city is Dodge City; every hill, Boot Hill.

A polite society is a clean society.

48-year-old Timothy Hal Cartee died from a gunshot wound. He was cleaning out his car when it happened. Foul play is not suspected and the death is being investigated as an accidental discharge.

Via Southern Beale.

Children, be polite to your parents.

When police responded to the scene, they found Jade Sympton, 22, suffering from a non-life non-life threatening gunshot wound to her left foot.

Sympton said she was injured by an unsecured firearm that her three-year-old son gained access to and accidentally fired.

To be safe, always check to see if the gun is loaded.

Police say Cooper had been drinking beer. At one point during the gathering, he retrieved a handgun.

Cooper’s friends told investigators that after he removed the magazine from the gun, he asked if there was still a round in the chamber.

Cooper then raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, discharging a round.

Guns + beer + stupid = politeness.

Always be polite at the wedding reception.

At least four people were injured, none seriously, when a gun accidentally discharged during a wedding reception Saturday night at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in midtown Manhattan, police said.

A guest at the reception had a gun in his pocket that went off, a police source said. Manhattan Chief of Detectives William Aubry said the incident happened about 7:30 p.m., half an hour after the reception began on the first floor of the famed hotel.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

The stupid. It burns.

Aside:

I’ve been in smoking rooms in the Atlanta airport. That is pretty much what they look like.

Via Balloon Juice.

Politeness is a family affair.

Authorities announced the arrest of a man in connection with the fatal shooting of his 7-year-old son in San Bernardino County Thursday.

The Adelanto boy’s death is being called an accident, but his father, Julio Cervantes Sr., was arrested Friday on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Politeness must start at a young age.

Five children were inside the house in the 4300 block of Egyptian Cove when the gun went off just before 7 p.m.

The boy’s father told deputies he was outside working in the yard when he heard a gun go off. He ran into the house and called 911 as soon as he saw his injured son.

“Apparently, a 4-year-old had found a gun in the house and picked it up and inadvertently shot himself. He has since died,” SCSO spokesman Chip Washington said.

Be polite to those who help you at the politeness place.

It all started when a customer entered the building (a firearms emporium–ed.) with a loaded gun.

“After the customer handed the gun over to store employees, the gun discharged,” says Sergeant Beard of the Abilene Police Department.

It only fired once, hitting one employee through the hand and the other in the abdomen.

“The customer feels absolutely terrible about it,” says Cowen.

Politeness takes practice.

In an online dispatch, troopers wrote they received a report that Samson Mullenax was injured by a gun at a gravel pit off Brown Mountain Road, in Ketchikan.

Trooper spokesperson Megan Peters said the pit is often used as a shooting range, and at the time Mullenax was shot he was with about six people who had gone to the area to shoot.

“The weapon was being handled by a person in the group and it discharged,”Peters said.

Politeness sometimes requires adjustments.

Police said Shultz and a relative were at the flood dam area of Searsburg for an overnight camping trip. Shultz had attempted to adjust his belt, which was holding a holstered Ruger .22.”

As the victim altered the placement of his belt, he accidentally squeezed the trigger causing one round to exit the gun and enter into his leg,” police wrote in a press release.

When stupid meets gunnuttery, the results are seldom pretty, but always predictable. At least reports did not imply that this gun fired itself.

I grew up with guns. I have handled guns since my youth. No gun fires itself.

News stories that say, “the gun fired” or “the gun discharged,” as if a gun fired all on its ownsome, embody intellectual dishonesty of the highest order. Those who pen such stories know not shame.

Politeness is a family affair.

She (the lady of the house, as the saying used to go–ed.) told investigators they were sleeping when they heard a noise in the house.

She reported that her husband had armed himself with a gun and went into the kitchen to investigate, and shot somebody whom he thought was an intruder.

He then recognized the 17-year-old victim as his brother.

The kid didn’t make it.

. . . and another day in NRA Paradise.

Scatter politeness where you may,
so that others may find it as they play.

The investigation showed that a boy, 8, identified as C.G. in the trooper report, was playing with his cousins in the yard. The kids went into a nearby shed where they obtained a loaded firearm from the rafters, according to the trooper dispatch.

“One of the children then shot C.G. with the firearm, not realizing that the firearm was real or loaded,” troopers said.

Play politely . . .

According to officers, four teens, including the boy who was shot and killed, were inside an apartment that was attached to a home on Leeland Street near Hughes Street in southeast Houston.

“It appears that they were playing with a handgun,” said Michael Arrington with the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division.

At some point, that handgun fired, hitting one of the teenagers.

. . . and another gun that fired itself.