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Spontaneous politeness. It’s like spontaneous combustion; if you combine the right elements, stuff happens.

About 2 p.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call for help at the Lemoore Sportsman Range in the 23000 block of Elgin Avenue, west of Highway 41 and south of the Kings River.

Deputies learned that a bullet hit a woman in the leg without actually coming out of the barrel of a gun.

Maria Ramos, 48, had placed a live .22 caliber rim-fire bullet on a table. The bullet fell off the table and hit concrete, causing it to discharge, wounding Ramos in her upper right leg.

Brotherly politeness:

An 8-year-old boy died Saturday afternoon from a single gunshot wound following an accidental discharge of a revolver by his brother at their residence in northern Bossier Parish.

Yet more self-politeness:

Ronad Niel, 56, Arnold, told deputies he had been target shooting at a firing range off Highway 185 and Route A in Washington County.

At one point, Niel lsaid he lowered a handgun he had been shooting, thinking it was empty, and the gun discharged striking him in the upper leg.

More self-politeness:

Meyers says an investigation determined that Heywood had retrieved the gun from a safe, and was showing it to family members when it accidentally discharged (hitting him in the thigh–ed.).

“The man legally owned the gun,” he said, “had a permit to carry it. Alcohol was not a factor in this incident. No charges will be filed.”

I like that last bit. If you can’t handle a gun when you are stone cold sober, you aren’t competent to handle a gun. In this case, it appears that stupid is the best defense.

Share the politeness.

An Oregon man openly carrying his brand new handgun was robbed of the firearm Saturday by another armed man.

That went just like the NRA predicted.

Afterthought:

I was telling my friend about this story; she asked rhetorically whether open-carry is in fact a “phallic fallacy.”

Be polite so as to ensure domestic tranquility.

Two juveniles who were also present at the time of the shooting told deputies that the male and female were arguing before the male exited and fired a weapon, the release states. The female followed and the arguing started again before another shot was heard, the juveniles reported.

The woman is in the hospital recovering from all that politeness.

Be polite to random strangers.

A shootout today at the Stockton Flea Market left a 22-year-old man dead of gunshot wounds, police said.

Every city, Dodge City. Every hill, Boot Hill.

Never joke with the polite.

Martin’s boyfriend asked Orsborn to “just chill” after he said something that upset her.

At some point, Martin “jokingly slapped the defendant across the face,” the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said. Witnesses said that Orsborn took the gun out of his shorts pocket and shot Martin in the forehead.

When everyone is packing, incidents such as this will, no doubt, cease.

The polite are clean.

Police say the man shot himself while sitting at a traffic light at Effingham and London Blvd. He was attempting to clean his revolver when the gun went off, shooting his hand.

Really, now, you can’t make this stuff up.

Oklahoman keeps his politeness to himself.

A man died after accidentally shooting himself Monday night at a residence in southeast Oklahoma City, police said.

Home-grown politeness.

A Lodi eighth-grader died Friday after being accidentally shot at his home Thursday, according to a release from the School District of Lodi.

No other students or children were involved in the accident, according to the release.

The story does not mention whether the gun fired itself, as so many seem to do, or had help.

Politeness starts at home.

Neighbors say they heard a woman screaming and crying outside the townhouse. Police arrived moments later, followed by an ambulance.

Sources tell Action News that a 2-year-old boy was playing with a gun when the weapon accidentally discharged, hitting him in the head.

. . . about three miles from where I used to live.

Scatter random acts of politeness along your way.

A family preparing to turn in their rental car after a week in Cocoa Beach discovered a loaded handgun on the floor of the vehicle amongst their 2-year-old’s toys.

Louis Venuto was helping his daughter Chloe round up her toys when she held up a .45 caliber handgun, reports 5NBC Chicago.

A shell was chambered and the safety was off.

Challenged.

Guns + stupid = polite.

A man accused of firing a bullet that broke a neighbor’s window says he fired the gun because he knew of no other way to unload it, police said.

After the shooting on Friday afternoon in Middletown, Bucks County, George Byrd IV first denied knowledge of the shooting to a detective, then admitted he fired the weapon to clear the chamber because he was unfamiliar with guns, police said.

Be polite to your sibling.

Houston police say a 13-year-old girl has fatally shot her older brother in an apparent accident at the family’s home.

The hunt for politeness:

District Attorney Pat Dougherty said the infant’s father had been sitting on a couch holding the infant when the bullet tore through the window of the home.

Dougherty said the bullet is believed to have come from hunters on private property across the street. He said they had permission to be there.

The DA is calling it accidental because of course hunters are allowed to blaze away at anything without knowing what’s there.

Politeness is a family thing . . .

When emergency officials arrived, Marshall EMT found a woman in a bedroom with a gunshot wound through her stomach and side. Her husband, Larry Watkins, said he was placing a loaded 7.65 MM rifle in the gun case and it fired one time. The bullet allegedly struck his wife, who was standing in the closet.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

Politeness is requisite to family togetherness.

A Washington County man killed himself after fatally shooting his ex-wife Tuesday night, state police said.

Just another day in the gun nut Garden of Eden. . . .