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Treat past and present coworkers politely.

A longtime employee of a Florida trucking company drove around Saturday shooting former co-workers and his onetime boss, killing two and wounding two, authorities said. The gunman then killed himself.

Etiquette training.

More polite family time.

A Shaler man shot his entire immediate family this morning, killing his daughter and himself, Allegheny County police said.

James Edwards’ 19-year-old daughter, Laurin, also is dead and his 51-year-old wife and 21-year-old son are in critical condition at a hospital this morning, according to county police homicide Lt. Andrew Schurman and the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office.

If the wife and kids had been armed, no doubt the family would be sitting in a circle singing “Kumbaya” at this very minute.

Be polite in the school cafeteria.

A 5-year-old kindergartener has reportedly been detained at a school in Tennessee after a handgun discharged in the cafeteria.

Shawn Pachucki with Shelby County Schools told WMCT that police were called to Westside Elementary School following a gunshot that happened in the cafeteria at around 7:30 a.m. Pachucki said that the child brought the gun to school in a backpack and it accidentally discharged.

If the other kids had been packing, they could have been polite right back.

This day’s news brings a surfeit of politeness.

A 3-year-old was shot and killed Tuesday night, allegedly by a family member during an argument, Gwinnett County police said.

Set aside family time, politely.

Police said on Monday that a Christiansburg man shot his stepson in the house they shared, drove to Pulaski, shot another stepson and then killed himself.

Party politely.

Two men are in the hospital after getting shot at a party in a wooded area behind a home in Cumberland County.

Another polite child.

A 3 1/2-year-old boy from Dundee (Michigan–ed.) died after shooting himself in the head with a handgun on Sunday, police said.

Associate, politely.

Authorities in New Hampshire were investigating on Sunday after a man reportedly gunned down an 8-year-old boy in a Manchester YWCA before turning the gun on himself.

Show courtesy to other drivers.

A 61-year-old man is expected to be charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of a Chicago man nearly 40 years younger over a traffic dispute.

If both drivers had fired guns and offed each other, the balance of politeness would have been maintained.

Just a shot away.

Gunnutery, life in the streets.

“My friends were standing right there in the yard and the guy came flying by and they were like ‘slow down, there’s kids’ and the guy did a U-turn and pulled over,” said Ashley Summerson, who was standing outside down the street when the gun went off.

After getting out of his car and waving around a gun, neighbors say the gun suddenly went off.

“Pulled his gun out trying to shoot one of them but he shot himself,” Summerson says.

“He was holding his groin and there was blood everywhere,” said neighbor Zach Watson.

There is a certain element of poetry in this.

Be polite to young entrepreneurs.

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy used a BB gun to rob a 10-year-old who was running a lemonade stand in western Pennsylvania.

In more news of the polite, courtesy is important to local governance.

A gunman blasted shots through the wall of a Pennsylvania municipal building during a meeting on Monday and then barged into the meeting room and continued firing, killing three people, before he was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun, a witness said.

All seriousness aside, you do realize that, in the term “gun nut,” the operative word is “nut.”

Friends don’t let friends be impolite.

A man Cleveland man told police that he was shot in the chest after he tried to stop his friend from driving drunk.

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Java Bowling III, 43, said he got in an argument with 40-year-old Scott A. Campbell because he was trying to take away his friend’s keys to prevent him from driving while intoxicated.

Allowing concealed-carry in bars will prevent this from happening again.

Diaper politely.

Danville police say a 2-year-old child is being treated in Roanoke for a gunshot wound to the back.

Addendum, the Next Day:

It was another case of child-on-child crime.

Police responded to another call of shots fired Sunday just before 3 p.m. That’s when police say a 6-year-old boy living in the home found a .380 handgun that belonged to a man also living in the home and accidentally fired the weapon.

Via C&L.

Practice random acts of politeness.

A 21-year-old Tampa man was driving a 2005 Dodge Avenger south on Shayne Street about 11 p.m. when he noticed a green laser pointed at the car and then heard gunshots, Brooksville Police Chief George Turner said. The driver and an 18-year-old male passenger were not injured. The men did not call for help, but a resident called police after hearing the shots, and officers located the car.

Politeness is a family thing.

A Barrow County restaurant owner is accused of killing his mother-in-law and then turning the gun on himself, authorities say.

Be polite to pets.

A Michigan man was being held on Monday after allegedly breaking his girlfriend’s nose, choking her and shooting her dog with a BB gun because he was jealous of the animal.

Remember, gun nuts, those movie cowboy Rambo heroes you fantasize yourselves into were shooting blanks.

A Missouri man is recovering in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after he shot himself in the groin over the weekend.

The Argus-Press first reported that a pistol tucked into the waistband of a 75-year-old Owosso man discharged, causing a bullet to be fired into his genitals.