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Welcome persons into your place of worship politely, just as Jesus would have done.

A Texas pastor is being accused of murder for allegedly fatally shooting his nephew on Sunday.

My local rag revisits a Great Moment in Politeness, reporting on the attempt to identify whodunnit:

A bullet fell from the sky just before Fourth of July fireworks shot into the heavens.

Most likely fired by a reveler near the Swift Creek Reservoir, its ascent lost steam just as throngs were converging on the banks to watch the show. High in the darkness above thousands of heads, gravity turned the bullet back toward Earth.

Now, police are trying to trace its arc in reverse, from its stopping place – inside the skull of a 7-year-old boy – all the way back to the finger that pulled the trigger.

Jeff Artis, President Emeritus of the Roanoke, Va., Chapter of the SCLC, sees trouble zimmering*:

In the aftermath of this case, it amazes me how ignorant some of the supporters of Zimmerman can be. The history of this country teaches us one thing. If this can happen to one group, it’s just a matter of time before it happens to another group. In what universe is it OK for a private citizen of any color to patrol a neighborhood with a loaded gun? Remember your comments when a white kid gets killed by a wannabe cop, the police refuse to investigate, the wannabe cop claims self-defense when he’s eventually arrested because of public pressure and is eventually found not guilty.

Read the rest. Please do read the rest.

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*Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Via BartCop.

One good turn deserves another.

A Tennessee woman is facing felony reckless endangerment charges after she allegedly fired multiple times and hit a car full of children that she thought was going to turn around in her driveway.

Surprise strangers, courteously.

The sister of a slain Cleveland, N.C., man said her brother and cousin were “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when they were fatally shot as they left a home on Saturday night.

“They were leaving unarmed with my brother (and) another in the back (of a pick-up truck),” Kayla Redman said in an email. “My brother shielded the younger boy (and) took a bullet.”

Redman is the sister of Daniel Carlton Redman, 21, of 628 Cedar Glen Circle, who was found dead Saturday about 3.5 miles away from where the shooting began at a nearby house.

Cultural Anthropologist Griffin Dix explores the proliferation of firearms and find that, in the immortal words of Yogurt, it was all “merchandising, my boy, merchandising.”

A nugget:

First — in response to declining sales of hunting rifles and shotguns — the gun industry initiated a four-decade marketing campaign to persuade Americans to buy handguns for home protection. In 1960 only 27 percent of the annual addition to the American gun stock consisted of handguns; by 1994 handguns’ share had doubled to 54 percent.

The industry’s marketing effort emphasized the need to have a handgun instantly available when — inevitably — your home is invaded. Gun marketers circulated criminologist Gary Kleck’s wildly inflated estimate that guns are used 2.4 million times per year for self-defense. Kleck’s research was riddled with errors soon exposed by Harvard’s David Hemenway. Subsequent studies showed that rather than providing protection, gun ownership greatly increased the risk of homicide and suicide in the home.

Read the rest.

Practice random acts of politeness towards the police.

A Boiling Springs town commissioner has been charged with pointing a gun at state troopers.

The Shelby Star reports (http://bit.ly/13KW5VO ) that troopers were responding to a call at around 10 p.m. on July 12 when 54-year-old John C. Glenn shined a laser light at them.

Authorities say Glenn then drove to his nearby lumber business. Troopers say they arrested Glenn there and found a gun with a laser sight in his car.A Boiling Springs town commissioner has been charged with pointing a gun at state troopers.

Too soon armed, too late smart.

From the webpage:

f they really believed their own rhetoric – the NRA and its friends in the Republican Party would start talking about giving people like Trayvon Martin – not George Zimmerman – easier access to firearms.

Also, pigs, wings.

More politeness for the children.

Wilmington police say a 5-year-old girl has been shot outside her home.

(snip)

He (Cpl. Mark Ivey–ed.) says the girl was standing outside her home when she was shot in the right leg.

Be polite to the children.

The Oakland Tribune (http://bit.ly/15OQ8w6 ) says the Oakland girl was on a sleepover with a friend inside the apartment when a man opened fire on the building shortly before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. She died at a hospital.

The shooting also wounded a 4-year-old boy, his 7-year-old sister and their 64-year-old grandmother. They’re hospitalized in stable condition Thursday and are expected to recover.

Party politely.

St. Louis Homicide detectives report just before midnight the men were driving on Chestnut on the north side of Kiener Plaza when one of the men in the car dumped beer inside the vehicle, sparking an argument.

Another man in in the car upset over the spill then got into an argument with the man who dumped the drink. That man got a gun and fired several shots at the victim, striking him repeatedly in the chest. The 29 year old victim was dead at the scene.

If Spuds MacKenzie had had a gun, this no doubt would not have happened.

Via the Sacramento Bee.

Practice, politely.

. . . the offending customer was firing a Smith & Wesson pistol that was “rather new” to him in a neighboring lane at Wade’s range. As the man raised his arms to shoot, the other customer accidentally fired through the foam lane divider.

The 9 mm bullet struck the man in the right arm, powered through it, then tore through his left arm as well, leaving him seriously injured, according to the lawsuit.

Yes, it does say “foam lane divider.”

Politeness proliferates potently.

Twenty-three mass killings have taken place in the past year since the Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting, according to a USA Today report.

According to USA Today, 126 people have been killed in mass killings across 19 states since July 20, 2012.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Feral twits.

Be polite to the sick and infirm.

Officials at Crozer Chester Medical Center are investigating an incident in which a bullet fired from outside the hospital late Monday night struck a patient in the abdomen.

Keep trafficking on, politely.

Police say that Ramiro Valerio was riding in the rear of a Chevrolet Tahoe traveling east from 35th Avenue on the access road to Indian School Road. As the Tahoe merged onto Indian School Road, it almost collided with a car which was traveling east. Occupants of both cars exchanged words.

East of 31st Avenue, the car turned north and one of the occupants of that car shot at the Tahoe, police said.

Valerio’s companions realized he was shot and drove him to a hospital, but he did not survive.

Be polite to your playmates.

A 6-year-old boy was shot by his 5-year-old playmate in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., on the Fourth of July, the local Mountain News newspaper reported Thrusday.

The two boys found a loaded pistol in an unlocked closet in the older boy’s grandparents’ home . . . .