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Politely hint that drivers who offend you should change their ways by shooting someone else in a tactful gesture of remonstrance.

Just after 6 p.m., Craig stopped at a traffic light at U.S. 301 when a man driving a sport utility vehicle got out and came up to the passenger side of the truck.

The man fired a gun twice, hitting Seago in the leg, arm and chest, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Seago was taken to Tampa General Hospital with what the Sheriff’s Office said were non-life-threatening injuries.

Hey! the gun nuts are okay twits.

Via Balloon Juice.

Politeness with pastrami at my local mall just a couple of miles down the road.

A man was shot at the Jason’s Deli near Pembroke Mall on Sunday afternoon.

(snip)

An argument between two groups of people escalated to the point that one male produced a gun and shot another man in the shoulder. The injured man made his way to Sears inside the mall and dialed 911.

If he’d walked to the other side of the mall, he could have called 911 from Target, which somehow seems more apt.

Obviously, this means that everyone should be packing.

Polite in the park.

Rangers at Yellowstone National Park are investigating the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl at a campground inside the park.

The mother of the girl told a 911 dispatcher that the girl shot herself with a handgun Saturday morning, according to a statement from the park.

Another random act of politeness.

Police say an 18-year-old woman was accidentally shot Friday evening and then was pronounced dead an hour later after her family rushed her to a hospital in her own car, authorities say.

“We can characterize this young women’s death, as unintended and extremely tragic,” said Cmdr. Jeff Satur, Longmont police spokesman.

Addendum, the Next Day:

She was shot by one of those good guys with a gun.

Politeness begins at home.

Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said it appeared that the 48-year-old father was the gunman who shot his wife and son before turning the weapon on himself inside the rowhouse on the 3800 block of I Street.

Yes, I know that it’s tiresome. Old news. Happens every day. And, according to the NRA, more guns in more hands and homes will make everyone safer and keep this from happening.

Also, have you noticed it’s almost always the husbands or boyfriends? There’s a pathology there that bears investigation.

Pre-emptive strike.

Lawyers for a Florida man this week cited President George W. Bush’s pre-emptive war in Iraq and the “Bush Doctrine” as a defense after their client killed two neighbors and attempted to kill a third on Labor Day.

Florida Today reported on Wednesday that attorney’s for William T. Woodward had filed a motion asking for charges against him to be dismissed under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, which says that gun owners do not have a duty to retreat in the face of an “imminent” threat.

He circled around behind them in the bushes and offed them while they were having a barbecue because, says he, he was a-skeert of them.

Gun Nut Paradise approacheth apace.

And you thought magazines were a dying industry.

James City County Police are investigating after a loaded rifle magazine was found on the floor at Hornsby Middle School.

Just as a point of reference, the county seat of James City County is Williamsburg (aka, at least when I attended school there, “Colonial Disneyland”).

Politeness belongs at home.

An 8-year-old boy in Shippensburg, PA was shot in the head by his 6-year-old brother after the boys’ mother fell asleep with a loaded rifle and pistol lying out in the open.

You are never too old to be polite.

An 80-year-old former police officer was arrested after a SWAT standoff in Union County early Sunday, accused of shooting and killing his daughter and wounding a great-grandson.

Be polite to yourself.

Docteur claimed that the gang had robbed him of his money and then yelled, “North End, North End,” as they fled. The North End is a neighborhood in Bridgeport.

But Docteur finally admitted that the gun in his waistband had gone off and he had shot himself after he was not able to explain why there was only a hole where the bullet exited from his pants. He was also not able to tell police what happened to his handgun after the incident.

But keep it a secret.

Afterthought:

Packing heat is not as easy as gun nuts tell themselves it is.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, yeah.

More accidental projectile politeness.

A 18-month-old Atlanta boy has died after apparently being shot in the chest with a BB gun, police said.

Politeness must be learned young.

A Spalding County preschool student had a loaded gun in his backpack Tuesday, the school system said.

Another student mentioned the gun to a Jordan Hill Elementary School teacher, who found the gun Tuesday afternoon, according to Judy Parker, spokeswoman for Griffin-Spalding County schools. The teacher brought the backpack and gun to the principal, who called police and the child’s parents, Parker said.

Politeness must be symmetrical.

Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies staying at separate sites on a Southern California campground were arrested after authorities said they pulled guns on each other and fired them into the air during a dispute over loud music.

Politeness in Slaughter, Louisiana.

An 8-year-old boy intentionally shot and killed his elderly caregiver on Thursday evening after playing a violent video game, authorities say.

Marie Smothers was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head in a mobile home park in Slaughter, Louisiana, the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Slaughter is about 20 miles north of Baton Rouge.

Gun nuts will no doubt blame the video game, which the story identifies as GTA IV.

The gun was an innocent bystander.

Accidental politeness?

A gun belonging to a York County Sheriff’s Office deputy accidentally discharged Monday night outside York High School, authorities say.

Never saw a gun go off by itself, for my part.

Be polite to Mommy.

A 29-year-old man killed his mother, set her house on fire and then shot randomly at passers-by in a Southern California neighborhood before officers, who had confronted him as he attempted to flee by tractor onto an equestrian trail, shot him dead, police said.

Be polite to the children.

Two young girls were hospitalized in critical condition Sunday, a day after they were wounded in a shooting at a northeastern Pennsylvania apartment complex, authorities said.

A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition and a 5-year-old girl in critical-stable condition after the shooting Saturday afternoon in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis said.

I trust that the NRA finds the epidemic of politeness gratifying.