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In the Bangor Daily News, Steve Edmondson follows a trail of politeness.

Join him on the trek.

Politeness is essential in a disciplinary hearing. (No doubt you’ve heard of this police chief and his crackpot videos.)

A hearing for a Pennsylvania police chief who made profanity-laced Internet videos about liberals and the Second Amendment was halted suddenly Thursday night after a handgun belonging to one of his supporters slid out of its holster and crashed onto the concrete floor.

The loaded semi-automatic handgun landed inches away from Gilberton Chief Mark Kessler and his attorney. It did not go off, but attorney Joseph Nahas said that he and other officials were concerned about the safety of everyone in the tiny, crowded meeting room at borough hall.

I am continually taken aback by the number of gun fetishists who have no idea how to practice safe gats. You’d think they at least would agree on “safe words” before their sessions.

And in other news of the polite . . . .

A woman was shot early Friday in what police are calling a road rage incident in north Cobb County (Georgia–ed.).

Network politely.

Investigators say a northern Kentucky woman shot her half-sister in the head Wednesday afternoon over a Facebook feud.

Politeness is essential to family functions.

According to the Amelia Bulletin Monitor Facebook page, two young boys, ages 10 and 11, were left alone. The boy was handling a gun, according to the Amelia Bulletin Monitor. That’s when sources say the weapon accidentally fired. Another boy, about a year younger, was also there. Neighbors say they’re brothers. It was the younger boy who called 911, and reported the child had been shot in the mouth.

By the time I was ten, I knew how to check whether the damned thing was loaded.

There is no room for “accidentally” where guns are involved. There is room only for “negligently.”

Via TPM.

Be polite to your fellow commuters.

A man standing on a crowded Muni train pulls out a .45-caliber pistol.

He raises the gun, pointing it across the aisle, before tucking it back against his side. He draws it out several more times, once using the hand holding the gun to wipe his nose. Dozens of passengers stand and sit just feet away – but none reacts.

Their eyes, focused on smartphones and tablets, don’t lift until the gunman fires a bullet into the back of a San Francisco State student getting off the train.

We need a Glockphone to spread the politeness.

Video of dumbphoners with smartphones below the fold courtesy of sfgate.com.

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Let Sam and Pap be your guides:

I also find Jehovah’s Witness missionaries annoying (hint: tell them you’re Catholic).

I have also found them to be unfailingly polite and courteous. This fellow decided to return that politeness in kind.

Incensed that two Jehovah’s Witnesses approached him in the front yard of his home, an Arkansas man allegedly had his wife retrieve his 9mm handgun from the residence and then fired 19 rounds at the pair’s vehicle, police report.

As the Good Book says, “Do unto others,” and he did.

More guns would no doubt have prevented this.

A Baytown (Texas–ed.) man died after he was shot with a rifle during a quarrel with a teen police identified as his friend.

Politeness begins at home.

A couple broke into a Pennsylvania home and killed the woman’s mother and brother before being shot to death by her father, the culmination of a long-running feud fueled by what a relative said Saturday was the woman’s “hatred” for her family.

Be polite during bathroom breaks.

Brandon Rapé was in a pickup truck with two friends Thursday about 11 p.m. when they pulled to the side of Sylvan Lake Drive near Sanford so that Rapé could answer the call of nature, a Sheriff’s Office report states.

The men saw a large snake in the road, and Jared Hemphill, also 18, decided to shoot it with a semiautomatic rifle that belongs to Dustin Downer, 21.

Hemphill heard a noise in the bushes and assumed it was the snake, so he fired the Remington Speedmaster and accidentally struck Rapé in the left thigh, he told investigators.

Guns and stupid, always a great combination.

When more politeness is not better.

Property owner Joseph Mitchell told deputies that he and several others were target shooting with a rifle using about 5 pounds of Tannerite, a type of explosive target marker used for firearms practice.

Mitchell said the group had placed the Tannerite in an inoperable 1993 Honda Accord parked in the middle of a large field on his property, according to Gardner.

“When the bullet struck the vehicle it detonated the Tannerite, causing the vehicle to explode,” Gardner said. “The explosion caused extensive damage to the vehicle.”

Tannerite’s website recommends using half-pound amounts of the explosive when igniting it with a high-powered rifle. The substance produces an explosion and cloud of vapor so shooters know if they’ve hit their mark.

Gunnuttery boils down to liking to blow stuff up.

All the rest is rationalization.

Nothin’ says lovin’
like goin’ out gunnin’.

Denied his chance to demonstrate politeness in the classroom.

Forsyth County police arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly threatening to shoot up a school in Gwinnett County.

Police later found bomb shrapnel, several rounds of bullets and improvised explosive devices at his home in Cumming.

More about how he prepared for his demonstration at the link.

More politeness on the highways, more happiness is a warm gun, yes it is.

If everyone had been armed, this would not have happ–oh, wait.

Never mind.

Pubescent politeness.

Police say a Northern California family didn’t call 911 for more than five hours after a 10-year-old girl was shot because they thought she had started menstruating.

The girl was sleeping in her Hayward home early Thursday when a stray bullet from a nearby shooting wounded her in the buttocks.

Der Speigel comments on American’s gun fetish (really, you know, that is the correct word). Here’s a snippet:

There’s something else the NRA likes to say: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” This motto was put to use on Sunday night in the heart of Manhattan, just two blocks from Times Square. Two New York City cops shot wildly at a confused — and unarmed — man. Instead they hit two passers-by.

On the same night, a young policeman in North Carolina fired 10 bullets into the body of a 24-year-old. The young black man was running up to the policeman after surviving an automobile accident — he was looking for help.

Read the rest.

The timeline of politeness shows that mass politeness is the Next Big Thing.

Via Raw Story.

Via Balloon Juice.

Politeness starts when one is young.

A 24-year-old man was arrested in the shooting death of a 3-year-old Michigan City-area boy in what an official said was a game the man played with a gun.

LaPorte County Prosecutor Bob Szilagyi said Monday the boyfriend of the victim’s mother told investigators he forgot the handgun was loaded when playing a gun game with the boy.

Via The Daily Banter.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.