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A 20-year-old man was accidentally killed on Saturday afternoon when he and an acquaintance were looking at a gun in a Baton Rouge home’s storage room, according to police.

The two men were in a home in the 4900 block of Jefferson Avenue when the gun went off around 12:30 p.m., said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge Police spokesman. A single bullet struck the 20-year-old in the chest, and he died at the scene, according to McKneely.

. . . and another gun that went off on its ownsome.

Perhaps we have reached the gunularity.

Be polite to your partner.

Fayetteville Police say Zia Segule, 28, left for work. His wife, 27-year-old Tiffany Segule, set the home alarm system. Zia Segule returned to the home unannounced to surprise his wife with breakfast. The alarm sounded and Tiffany Segule, who had gotten back in the bed, shot her husband in the chest through their closed bedroom door.

If only the husband had been packing, he could have returned fire to protect himself.

Via TPM.

Afterthought:

The NRA and its gun nut followers thrive in a world of fear.

“Shoot first and ask questions later” is a policy not embraced by persons in possession of their faculties; it is, nevertheless, the NRA way.

These people are nuts, and cowardly nuts at that. They would slay an unknown before they face it.

Be polite to your progeny.

Officer Doug Welborn said the father was carrying a .40-caliber pistol in a holster on his belt when he accompanied his daughter to her appointment at Adient Physical Therapy in the Medical Dental Arts building on Lathrop Street. At some point during the appointment he decided to remove his jacket and didn’t want the gun to be seen by other patients in the office. The man removed the gun from the holster and put it in his jacket pocket, at which point the trigger caught on the garment and a shot was fired.

Via Southern Beale.

Guns don’t kill people; dogs with guns kill people—or so it would seem from the recent rash of gun owners who have been accidentally shot by their dogs.

Follow the link for the rogues’ gallery.

Via Juanita Jean.

Teach the children, teach them politeness.

Kansas City police are investigating the apparent accidental shooting of a 3-year-old Kansas City girl Wednesday afternoon.

(snip)

Initial indications were that the girl either shot herself or was shot by a 4-year-old sibling, according to police.

Practice makes polite.

Deputies say Thomas Nastasiak of Saint Petersburg and John Bell of Clearwater were target practicing on Bell’s property in Old Town when a stray bullet struck a neighbor in his chest.

Deputies say the 62-year-old man whose name has not been released, was raking his yard when he was shot.

“Target practicing.”

Yeah.

Right.

Politeness is a “sound” decision.

According to the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the victim was shot while walking through a cutover after being mistaken for game. The shooter, a 51-year-old Richmond man, was a guest of the hunting club and was walking alongside the cutover with two members when he heard the sound of breaking limbs adjacent to his location. He then positioned himself in front of the sound, raised his shotgun and fired once after seeing movement. His shot struck the victim in his left and right leg from a distance of roughly 49 feet.

When my brother lived in Vermont 30 years ago, his boss stopped hunting after he heard some out of town hunters talking in a bar. One said, “Did you bag anything?”

The other replied, “No, but I got off some sound shots.”

When the boss realized that “sound shot” meant shooting in the direction of a noise without knowing what made the noise, he decided that hunting was no longer worth the risk.

Be polite. Help with the household chores.

Jack Bingham, 62, of 29000 Lyona Boulevard, was helping his wife pick up items that fell on the floor when a .44 magnum revolver he was carrying in a shoulder holster fell out of the holster, onto the floor and discharged, striking Bingham in the head, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

At least this bozo didn’t shoot his wife, like Thursday’s bozo.

Now, about those intelligence tests of gun licen–oh, never mind.

Celebrate politely.

A woman allegedly accidentally shot by her boyfriend during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Sacramento County has died of her injuries, according to Sacramento County sheriff’s officials.

(snip)

Through the night, detectives investigated the incident, which sheriff’s department spokeswoman Sgt. Lisa Bowman described as a celebratory act that resulted in an accidental shooting of the young woman.

In a startling development, this gun apparently did not go off on its ownsome. The boyfriend is in the jailed charged with “negligent discharge of a firearm.”

Ring in the New Year politely (emphasis added).

The Peachtree City Police Department report their chief of police called 911 early Thursday morning to report that he had accidentally shot his wife. She is now listed in critical condition at the Atlanta Medical Center, where she was airlifted.

The circumstances behind the shooting remain unclear; all that is known is McCollom’s service weapon discharged, and a bullet struck his wife.

. . . and yet another gun that goes off all on its ownsome.

It would seem that the gun nut slogan, “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people,” is demonstrably false. According to news reports, guns seem to discharge without human intervention multiple damn times a day.

Celebrate politely.

Investigators said the 68-year-old man was handling a pistol after drinking, when he reportedly dropped the gun.

A shot was fired, which, according to the police report, went through a couch, the man’s leg, and into his abdomen.

Note the passive voice: “A shot was fired,” apparently by unknown agency. The person who dropped the gun had nothing to do with it. He was an innocent victim who just happened to be in the way when whatever it was activated the firing mechanism.

A polite society is a clean society.

A 10-year-old was accidentally shot in the leg when his father was cleaning a gun that had not been unloaded, police said.

How is this an “accident” and not “negligence”?

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

A woman was shot and killed by her toddler son inside a Walmart Tuesday morning.

(snip)

The boy, who was sitting in the shopping cart, reached into his mother’s purse and grabbed her gun, according to sheriff’s officials. The gun went off, striking the woman.

If everyone was always packing, no doubt this would not have happened. The kid would have had his own gun and wouldn’t have needed his mother’s. Or something something something gun nut paradise.

Another chapter in the hunt for politeness:

Moore was hunting with a group of about 5 to 6 family and friends when one of them shot a deer, according to Captain Robert McCollough with SCDNR.

McCullough said they went back to find the deer and were following a trail of the wounded deer’s blood when one woman tripped.

The woman’s gun went off and accidentally shot Moore.

Have these persons never heard of a “safety”?

The hunt for politeness continues apace.

Tama County officials say three members of a family were preparing to go muzzleloader hunting for deer when a gun discharged, killing the person who was loading the gun.

Another gun discharges all on its ownsome, without interference of a human creature with agency. It’s the shooting singularity, I tell you! The shooting singularity!

Or, possibly, some persons are too stupid to handle firearms.

Play politely.

The two victims were playing with a gun Friday evening at a home in Cameron. The boys believed the gun was unloaded. It was not. The shot struck the 19-year old victim in the forehead and he later died at a local hospital. The second victim remains hospitalized.

It’s not polite to get loaded, so get politely unloaded.

According to WFSB, police found that 24-year-old Britney Koba has accidentally shot herself in the thigh when she was trying to unload the firearm in her car. Koba was taken to Hartford Hospital.

Be polite on the highways.

According to police, Ryan David Balla, 39, of the 500 block of Major Street, rear-ended a vehicle, and then aimed a pistol at a man and a lady as they were approaching to exchange facts.

Balla then allegedly rear-ended the car once more intentionally and fled the scene.

Two witnesses followed Balla.

Just after quite a few miles, Balla allegedly got out of his automobile, pulled out his gun, began to aim it at the witnesses, a man and a woman, and walk toward them.

Sojourn politely.

A man apparently accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in the 9900 block of Midlothian Turnpike, according to Chesterfield County police.

The man was reportedly putting his gun away for the night when he accidently fired the gun, and the bullet struck him in the leg, police said.

At least the reporter recognized that the gun didn’t go off on its ownsome.

Do you holiday shotting politely.

On Sunday afternoon, a 42-year-old man in the parking lot of Academy Sports on U.S. Route 70 accidentally shot himself in the leg while changing the ammunition in his handgun.

Officers at the scene did not release the man’s name, but said his injury was not life threatening.

The day before, a 24-year-old man accidentally shot himself–also in the leg, and also while he was sitting in his vehicle–in the parking lot of Valley Hills Mall, which is adjacent to the Academy Sports parking lot.

The man was attempting to put his 45mm handgun on safety when it went off and hit an artery in his leg, causing life-threatening blood loss.

“On safety.” Right.

Guided to politeness:

Cache County sheriff’s deputies say (hunting guide–ed.) Christopher Richards of the Sportsman’s Paradise Hunting Club was leading a group of hunters when the accident occurred Saturday near the town of Paradise.

As the 24-year-old Richards entered a small grove of trees to flush out some pheasants, a 12-year-old hunter fired a shotgun at a pheasant from the opposite side.

The injuries were not life-threatening.

Whatchawanna bet that, had that 12-year-old “hunter” been a 12-year-old black kid with a toy gun in Walmart, he’d be dead by now.

The distance from “hunter” to “hunted”–that’s white privilege in a nutshell.