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Be polite at the show.

Hawk told police he thought the gun was unloaded when he demonstrated a concealed-carry wallet holster to the woman, Krista Gearhart, 25, of Orangeville. Gearhart was treated and released for a thigh wound at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Hawk told police he had done the same demonstration about 20 times without incident before the shooting, “racking” the gun’s slide to clear it of bullets each time, Sharrow said. Somehow, the gun was loaded when Gearhart was shot.

And, in more news of gun show-offs . . . .

Afterthought:

They never know the gun was loaded, do they?

Always be polite when you are loaded.

Karen Parker-Chesson with the Norfolk Police Department said a man inside a residence was unloading his gun when the weapon discharged through his hand, and then hit another person who was sitting in front of him.

Play politely.

Rapper/actor ICE-T’s grandson has been arrested after allegedly shooting and killing his roommate in Georgia.

Elyjah Marrow, 19, was playing around with a handgun in his apartment on Tuesday when it accidentally went off, fatally wounding pal Daryus Johnson.

Marrow has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and a slew, nay, two slews of other stuff.

I cannot help wondering this wonder: If Marrow were not Not-White, would we be hearing the police at a press conference announcing that this was yet another case of a “tragic accident” and that charges were not being filed because “he’s suffered enough”?

And don’t you dare tell me that wondering that wonder is not rational.

You know that it is.

Drive politely.

Police say a man in his 30s was killed in an apparent road rage shooting in Kensington.

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An initial investigation revealed that an unidentified man was arguing with a woman in the street.

It appears that the man was blocking traffic from getting by and an upset driver got out of a green minivan and shot the man twice then fled.

Practice politeness professionally (emphasis added).

An Oklahoma home was damaged last weekend by a howitzer artillery shell fired from a gun range three miles away.

The artillery shell – which is 14.5 inches long and 3.5 inches across – crashed through an exterior wall, hit the ceiling, and damaged another wall while homeowner Gene Kelley and his wife were in another room, reported KOAM-TV.

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The shell was fired from a 105mm howitzer at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show, but the gun range owner insists the historic weapon was safely fired by professionals in a downward projection.

Er, yeah.

Be polite to children at play.

A Pennsylvania woman was accused of pointing a handgun at some children playing with squirt guns and opening fire.

Police said 24-year-old Billie Jo George, of Reading, grabbed her gun, loaded it, and waved the weapon at four children — ages 2,5, and 6 — playing on a sidewalk near her home, telling them she had a real water gun.

Party politely.

When officers arrived on scene, 23-year-old Roy Jacob Bryant was found suffering from a shotgun wound. He was taken to Rowan Regional Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries a short time later.

Investigators say Bryant and his 22-year-old cousin, Timothy Scott Glover, had been drinking liquor that night, and Glover had been in possession of a shotgun. Further investigation revealed Glover, who authorities say was intoxicated, was “carelessly” handling the shotgun when it discharged, firing a fatal blow into Bryant’s body.

This shows why guns in bars is such a good idea.

Be polite amongst your friends.

A southeast Missouri high school student is dead after an accidental shooting in a school parking lot.

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The gun was one of two firearms in a truck owned by the grandfather of one of the teens. The sheriff said Robert was shot when one of his friends tried to pass him the gun and it accidentally discharged.

More guns will prevent this from happening to others.

Cleanliness is next to politeness.

The 911 call said that a 55-year-old man had been shot by an acquaintance that was looking over a handgun when it went off. Police say the victim, identified as Joseph M. Pastorelli Sr., was hit by a single round.

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Police interviewed several people inside the home at the time. Investigators believe it happened while several guns were being cleaned after they had recently been fired at a shooting range.

We have clearly reached the shooting singularity. Guns keep going off on their ownsomes, without human intervention, if you can believe what you read.

Politeness is an international language.

A Frenchman shot his son three times after mistaking him for a blackbird raiding the family cherry tree. The story is just the latest in a long line of tragic and freak shooting accidents in France.

A Frenchman aged in his 70s noticed some rustling in his cherry tree tree on Saturday night in north-western France and, assuming it was hungry blackbirds pillaging his fruit, he pulled out his shotgun and opened fire.

So is stupid.

Cleanliness is next to politeness:

Authorities continue to investigate the death of a Gaffney woman whose husband said he accidentally shot her as he cleaned his shotgun.

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(Cherokee County Coroner Dennis–ed.) Fowler says Pennington’s husband told investigators his 12-gauge shotgun accidentally fired.

Where are those “responsible gun owners” the NRA keeps talking about?

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s James E. Causey spends a day with someone who openly packs heat, a whatchamaycallem open-carrier who is concerned, he says, with self-defense. A nugget:

Sajdowitz let me tag along with him recently as he open carried on the Milwaukee’s south side. He told me before we left that I probably would get more “looks” as a “big, black guy with dreadlocks” than he would as a white guy with a gun on his hip. Sadly, he was right.

I wonder what it’s like to feel the need to be armed wherever you go, to walk the aisles of Target and Walmart and even your local bank wrapped in fear . . . .

Neighborly politeness.

Steven Justin Ayers was celebrating the arrival of his new baby at the home he and his wife had just bought in September when a bizarre accident—one that an officer labels as having “one in infinity” odds—took his life. The 33-year-old guitar teacher, his wife, their 3-day-old baby, and family members were gathered Tuesday night at the home in Panama City, Fla., when a bullet entered the home and struck Ayers in the back of the head, killing him. Police arrived and found neighbor Charles Edward Shisler, 62, in his backyard; he lives in a home directly behind the Ayers, the officer tells WJHG. Shisler, at first “extremely belligerent,” ultimately admitted to the shooting but said it was an accident, the News Herald reports.

“The damn gun doesn’t usually shoot,” he said, according to the arrest report. “You have to squeeze the hell out of the trigger to shoot it.”

In more news of the polite, at least one person knew to check whether his gun was loaded. It was.

A Penn Hills man told police he was checking to see whether one of his guns was loaded when it fired, striking and killing his friend, according to court documents.

Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .

Penis envy achieves the singularity: artificial penis attacks its rival.

Another polite gun that decided to initiate politeness all on its ownsome . . . .

Muskingum County investigators are calling the fatal shooting of a boy this afternoon a terrible accident.

Family members identified the victim as 11-year-old Lucas Templin. They say the Tri Valley fifth grader was playing at his best friend’s Fifth Street home when a gun went off.

Image via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Footloose, fancy-free, and extremely polite:

Police were called to the store around 12:30 p.m. and found the man sitting on the tailgate of his truck with a gunshot wound to his right foot. The man, L.C. Williams, said the holster recently broke and he was carrying his concealed weapon in his waistband.

As he was approaching his truck, the gun fell out of his waistband, hit his foot and discharged, according to Orlando police.

(These folks parody themselves.)

If you must play with your phallic doppelganger, it’s polite to do so only when you are not behind the wheel.

A concealed carry permit holder accidentally shot himself and another man while sitting in the passenger seat of a car on the city’s East Side, Cleveland police said.

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The bullet ripped through the gun owner’s hand before it passed through the driver’s right leg and lodged in his left leg, police said.

Farron Cousins and Howard Nations explore how the Second Amendment was hijacked by gun nuts and wingnuts. It’s worth a listen.