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In a corollary to the Ten Commandments, it is directed that you be polite to your father and your mother.

A man accidentally shot his 71-year-old father inside a southwest Omaha house on Thursday, police said.

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Dober’s son’s gun accidentally fired about 2:15 p.m. at 10205 P St., police said.

Police did not release the name or age of Dober’s son and said they had not arrested him. He is an adult, police said.

. . . and yet another gun that fires its own damned self, yet another gun nut who will not be held responsible for his nuttery.

And then there’s this.

Be polite to younger family members.

Warren Township Police Chief Don Bishop says 15-year-old Jesse Hayes died Monday. He was shot Saturday night near Leavittsburg in Trumbull County.

Bishop says the 28-year-old cousin told police he had been talking with Jesse about hunting and had a few beers. He was showing the boy a new shotgun when he pointed it at Jesse and pulled the trigger. He told police he didn’t think it was loaded.

Guns, beer, and stupid: always a good combination in NRA Paradise.

Afterthought:

If this is not negligent homicide, then there can be no such thing.

You’ve heard of an “omnibus”? The polite take the “ammobus.”

A man who accidentally discharged his weapon while using the bathroom inside a Megabus traveling on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway in Des Plaines Tuesday night was ultimately subdued by a passenger and held until police arrived.

Just another day in NRA Paradise.

Another day in NRA Paradise.

Police say a 4-year-old boy was wounded when a gun apparently accidentally discharged and his head was grazed by a bullet in Ann Arbor. . . .

Ann Arbor police Detective Sgt. Pat Hughes says . . . three other children — two boys and a girl all under the age of 10 — were at the home at the time.

Other than that, police still haven’t figured out exactly who did what to whom.

Be polite to your friends.

The car carrying five friends was eastbound on Harvey Road near Texas 6 by Post Oak Mall when the firearm, which police declined to identify, discharged and hit the driver, authorities said. The driver was able to pull over safely, according to Assistant Chief Chuck Fleeger, who said the front passenger apparently was attempting to disassemble the firearm when it went off just before 3 p.m.

The stupid. It burns.

Bay of Plenty Police District Command Centre’s Sergeant Dennis Murphy says police were alerted to the incident around 8 eight o’clock.

“A 16 year old male was duck hunting, and while hunting a firearm was discharged. As a result of that he is now unfortunately deceased.”

“Was discharged” by whom, precisely?

The intellectual dishonesty of reportage on “accidental” gun deaths is stunning.

Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .

SAPD was called to an accidental shooting of a 3-year-old boy in the 2500 block of Babcock Road around 10:30 Saturday morning. . . .

SAPD said the boy was somehow able to get a hold of a handgun and was shot in the upper body. SAPD did not identify the type of handgun.

In Maine, there is an effort to lower the minimum hunting age from 10 to eight. In the Bangor Daily News, Don Loprieno explains that the effort is not about the joys of communing with nature in the northwoods wilderness, nor about putting dinner on the table or learning to live off the land.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

This was not a grassroots movement. It’s part of a national effort mounted by a coalition of out-of-state, well-funded organizations that wield considerable influence. Called innocuously enough the Families Afield program, it was established by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and the National Wild Turkey Federation, allied with the NRA and the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. Why? Because the number of hunters is declining almost everywhere, so younger children are being targeted since kids who start hunting early tend to continue as they get older.

Read the rest.

Politeness is child’s play.

One of the twins was playing with his mother’s gun and pointed it down the hallway just before 2 p.m. He pulled the trigger as his brother was walking by, according to the police report. When the gun went off, his brother was hit in the right arm with the bullet exiting out of his back, according to the police report.

According to the story, he didn’t see his brother until it was too late.

Politeness can be a moving experience.

A woman died Tuesday morning in what police believe may have been an accidental shooting. . . .

Preliminary investigating indicates a woman was moving her boyfriend’s gun when the weapon fired, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officials said.

A model (home) of politeness.

A Georgia sheriff is under investigation after he critically injured a woman in a shooting that he described as an accident, police in an Atlanta suburb said on Monday.

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill shot Gwenevere McCord, 43, in the abdomen at a model show home in a subdivision in Gwinnett County on Sunday, according to police. Local media reported that McCord is a real estate agent who is friends with Hill.

Guess he didn’t like the asking price, but, according to TPM, he ain’t talking.

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

Politeness is a family affair.

Lt. Larry Rice with the Tarrant Police Department said the father of the young child was cleaning his gun when it went off, striking the boy around 6:45 p.m at their home on Bell Avenue.

If you are too stupid to unload a gun before cleaning, you are too stupid to handle a weapon–any weapon.

Politeness as child’s play:

Authorities say a child was flown to a hospital after reportedly being shot with a BB gun in suburban Philadelphia.

Ensure that the young conduct themselves politely.

Sources report that police were called to a home near Cholla Street and 83rd Avenue to investigate a shooting about 9:30 p.m. There, investigators learned a boy, 2, who shot himself in the face while playing on a bed with his grandmother. Apparently, the gun was “rolled up in sheets,” but it’s unclear how the child discovered it.

The question in this scenario is quite simple. Who’s the biggest turkey?

Missouri Department of Conservation officials are investigating a Tuesday accident in which an Arkansas man shot another hunter after mistaking him for a turkey in Wayne County.

A feet of politeness:

On Wednesday at 3:42 p.m. Racine County dispatchers was advised there was a patient at the Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot, according to a news release issued late Wednesday.(snip)The preliminary investigation shows the injury was a result of a hunting accident, according to the release.

Politeness must be inculcated from a young age.

A Pocatello firefighter who lives in Chubbuck has been charged with misdemeanor injury to a child in the accidental shooting death of 5-year-old Noelle Aston Shawver, of Blackfoot, last July by another 5-year-old.

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The little girl was killed after being struck by a bullet discharged from a firearm held by another 5-year-old child on the afternoon of July 30, 2014, at Lish’s home. Adults in the home at the time were in another room.

Afterthought:

Just for grins and giggles, consider whether this would be a misdemeanor were the persons involved black in Baltimore.

Be polite in the wild.

Police say Christopher Montoya was showing off his gun during a camping trip earlier this month when it accidentally discharged, hitting his (13-year-old–ed.) brother in the stomach. The boy was airlifted to UNM Hospital in Albuquerque.Detectives say Montoya admitted to having drank six or seven beers that night.

“Guns and booze,” the hallmark of the good guy with a gun.

Don’t skip politeness.

Curtis Johnson was close to graduating, but he died when the gun went off in the 4600 block of Chelwood Drive in Southeast Memphis.

Social media posts say it was senior skip day. The high school senior was shot during school hours.

According to police, witnesses identified 19-year-old Kendrick Patterson as the shooter.

MPD says that after arresting Patterson, he confessed to playing with a handgun and shooting Johnson.

Aside:

When did “senior skip day” become a thing?

Another decorous day in NRA Paradise.

The shooting was reported shortly before 8 p.m. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Sgt. Lisa Bowman said the victim, a man in his mid-20s, and his wife were in a vehicle stopped on Sixth Parkway when they became involved in a heated conversation with a pedestrian. The pedestrian reportedly pulled a gun and fired multiple rounds at the victim and his wife.