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Be polite to your neighbor.

Tragedy strikes early in the year as Debra Mishler, 50, dies from an accidental gunshot wound to the abdomen.

A relative of Mishler’s and another man were allegedly examining a .308 caliber rifle in their mobile home adjacent to Mishler’s on Fern Hollow off State Highway 173, four miles west of Jourdanton around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. One of the men allegedly pulled the trigger of the gun, thinking it was not loaded, inside the mobile home. The gun was loaded, says Atascosa,

County Sheriff David Soward, and the bullet shot through a bathroom wall and struck the victim on her porch as she was walking into her house next door.

No charges are expected because “it happens.”

Gunnuttery would appear to be a prima facie defense against reckless endangerment.

Another gun enthusiast gets off a clean(ing) shot.

A New Hampshire man playing video games Tuesday night got a taste of real life violence when a rogue bullet hit him in the head.

Josh Demeritt, 20, of Rochester was surprisingly uninjured by the bullet accidentally fired by his across-the-street neighbor Corey Field, 25, who was in the middle of cleaning his gun.

He was not seriously injured, but the practitioner of clean gunnuttery is in big trouble.

Be polite in the halls of state.

Kentucky State Rep. Leslie Combs (D) accidentally fired her semi-automatic handgun in the state capitol building Tuesday night just before Gov. Steve Beshear (D) gave his state of the state address, WHAS11 reported.

Combs was unloading her gun in the Capitol annex office when it went off. The bullet hit the floor and ricocheted toward a bookshelf, according to WHAS11.

She was quoted as saying, “I am a gun owner. It happens,” which is a profoundly stupid statement. Responsible gun owners make sure it never happens. It’s part of the deal.

If “it happens,” you are ipso facto not a responsible gun owner.

These people are nuts.

Courtesy is essential in relationships.

Crime scene tape still surrounds the home of Laura and Chris Rains as deputies try to piece together what happened in the moments leading up to Laura’s death.

Deputies say Laura, 26, was shot in the head by her 25-year-old husband around 6 p.m. Monday.

Chris Rains told investigators his wife was handing him a pistol when it went off.

All snark aside, this sort of stuff is sad and far too common. (Don’t believe me? Set up a Google alert for “accidental shooting” and permutations thereof.)

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Be polite when dining out.

John Cassata, 70, of Fairport, was showing his .38-caliber handgun to a friend, Charles Raab, 67, while sitting in the Cottage Hotel during the lunch hour on Saturday when the gun discharged, sending a bullet through Cassata’s hand, ricocheting off his leg and grazing Raab’s ankle, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Witnesses said the shooting left Cassata bleeding heavily and repeating, “I have a permit. I have a permit,” referring to his pistol.

He’s been charged with reckless endangerment and other counts.

Now, about those intelligence tests for gun licenses . . . .

Travel the highway of courtesy.

The incident happened about 8 p.m. as Hector Rosina, 19, of Tampa drove north onto the interstate in a 2004 Dodge Neon at Fletcher Avenue. As he merged onto the highway, a Cadillac CTS cut him off, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Both cars continued north on I-275, the Neon in the center lane and the Cadillac in the outside lane.

As they approached Bearss Avenue, Rosina changed to the outside lane, cutting off the Cadillac, troopers said. The Cadillac then tailgated him before the cars paralleled each other.

Rosina and the other driver yelled and exchanged obscene hand gestures, troopers said. Then, the Cadillac driver fired a gun.

Be polite to yourself.

Police say the homeowner accidentally shot himself around 6 a.m. this morning.

Police say the homeowner thought someone was breaking into his home.

He went looking for who he thought was an intruder – when his gun accidentally went off.

Because packing heat keeps you safe . . . .

Via Juanita Jean, who has more news of the polite.

G. Scott Davis, 35, was “messing” with a loaded handgun at his East Lampeter, Pa. apartment when his baby daughter Kestyn Davis was shot, Lancaster Online reported Monday. Police reported that Kestyn was shot in the abdomen and soon after died at a local hospital.

She was two months old.

Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .

Practice highway courtesy.

“There is mention of that (type problem) on the (911–ed.) tape. I’m not sure what exactly transpired. It appears to be a random road-rage incident,” Hicks, who declined to elaborate about the 911 tape, told The Associated Press on Sunday.

No arrests have been made, and the FBI has joined the investigation.

Police believe the pickup driver rammed Davison’s car into a grassy median, before the driver or perhaps a passenger shot him at about 2:10 a.m. The shooting occurred about 10 miles north of Hagerstown, Md.

Be polite to the care-givers.

A man shot himself to death at a Daytona Beach hospital early Sunday after firing at several cars and attacking a pair of nurses.

Because the aisles at Lowes are teaming with brigands (especially the lighting department) . . . .

Cheyenne police say a 22-year-old woman was shot in the arm after a handgun fell out of the holster on (sic) a 58-year-old woman.

Via Juanita Jean.

Be sure to make a deposit of courtesy in the snow bank.

He shot the floor, but he did not shoot the deputy.

Athens-Clarke County police say the 22-year-old Loganville man was carrying his gun between his belt and his pants at the Fatz Cafe on Wednesday.

Police say that when he reached into his pocket to get money for his meal, one of his fingers got caught in the trigger guard of the .45-caliber pistol.

In other news of the polite . . . .

More familial courtesy:

“Deputies learned that the 60-year-old homeowner was cleaning his 45 Desert Eagle semi-automatic handgun at the kitchen table when it accidentally discharged,” said the sheriff’s department in a release. “A single round was fired, which struck his wife in the abdomen.”

The lady is recovering.

Where I come from, you point the damn gun at the floor and unload it before you clean it.

This New Year’s, resolve to be polite to your toddler.

Be polite to your playmates.

A 15-year-old boy is in custody in South Carolina after shooting and killing a 12-year-old girl with his grandfather’s handgun over the weekend.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The Denver Post’s Rick Tosches muses about the latest courteous carryings-on in the Mountain State.

When you are hunting, be polite to persons standing behind your quarry.

A 61-year-old man from Disputanta, Va. had to be airlifted to the hospital after a hunting accident in Sussex County on Monday.

(snip)

They say the man was hit in the head with a shotgun pellet during an organized deer hunt with the Waids Hunt Club.

They say he was shooting at deer at the time when the shot went past the deer and hit the victim.

Afterthought:

If this is an organized deer hunt, I’d hate to participate in a disorganized one.

(Also, hire some copy editors. Pronouns are organizing an antecedent hunt.)

Addendum:

The victim did not survive.

Be polite in the checkout line.

WHMI-FM reports the 32-year-old man from the Livingston County community of Green Oak Township was shot in the buttocks Thursday evening at the Home Depot in Brighton. Police say it appears he was reaching for his wallet when he inadvertently grabbed the pistol and a shot fired.

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Via Southern Beale, who has even more tales of the polite.