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Another child is sacrificed at the feet of the NRA’s priapic idol.

Yet another child . . . .

One more time, “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.

One would expect police to know that.

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.

The 30-year-old man was at a business in the West District about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday when he reached for his wallet and instead accidently (sic) fired a gun that was inside a satchel, Chief Shon Barnes said in his blog.

The man did not realize what had happened right away as he thought it just sounded like something fell. The man then noticed he had shot himself in the thigh, Barnes said.

Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.

Aside:

Yeah, I know you probably find these posts tiresome.

No more tiresome than I find the pointless pain perpetuated by the proponents of the portable phallus.

There’s a reason why you’re supposed to unload guns when transporting them.

“Linden Police Chief David Dulude said the incident occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. Witnesses reported a store employee, identified as Larry Lawrence, 39, of Queen City, was in the process of placing groceries in the rear seat of a vehicle, where a dog was located.

“Lawrence then began to pet the dog when a .22 rifle, also located in the rear seat of the vehicle, discharged striking Lawrence in the chest. Resuscitative measures were given to Lawrence by witnesses.

The story goes on to report that those “resuscitative measures” were not successful.

One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

Popping off at Popeyes.

Another responsible gun owner (sic) exercises poor judge-ment.

Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” thought the gun was unloaded.

According to a witness at the scene, a gunshot went off in the apartment, and the teen walked into the room holding his chest and said, “Papa shot me.”

The grandfather confirmed that he shot his grandson with a Glock .45 pistol but said he thought it was unloaded.

Train your pets with politeness.

After his two-year-old dog attacked a new puppy he had brought home, a Florida Man shot the older canine to death with a weapon he retrieved from a gun cabinet, cops report.

According to a court affidavit, Shane Braley, 36, was “extremely intoxicated” last week when he executed the dog outside his home in Jensen Beach, an Atlantic Coast locale.

Here in NRA Paradise, it would appear that politeness is a family value.

Aside:

Many years ago, back in the very early years of this blog, I decided to pursue this topic after having seen a car with “An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” bumper stickers plastered all over it. Knowing something about guns (I was a darned good shot when I was in practice, but it’s been a long time since I lived in a place where I could safely target shoot in my back yard the way I could at Pine View Farm) and gun nuts, I recognized that sentiment to be–er–somewhat misguided. Dodge City confiscated guns for a reason back in the olden days, long before I was a young ‘un.

I set up a “news alert” with a particular online “service,” an “alert” that I haven’t modified since. Granted, the “alert” sometimes hiccoughs and includes items that don’t involve firearms, but that is very much the exception; it also sometimes references the same event in multiple notifications. In addition, many of the “alerts” reference multiple news stories. In other words, the “alert” is hardly statistical evidence in any scientific sense in and of itself, but I would argue that it is more than merely anecdotal.

Anyway, what I’m leading up to is this:

When I first set up this news “alert,” I would get maybe eight to 10 “alerts” a day, often fewer.

Now it’s usually between 30 and 40, sometimes more.

We have become a polity poisoned by poseurs possessed of their portable phalluses.

Be polite to persons protecting prickets from peril.

We are a broken society, as Atrios points out.

There’s something almost poetic about this politeness.

. . . and another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” waves at another driver with politeness.

A slice of politeness.

A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to pointing an AK-47 rifle at Little Caesars employees because his $6 pepperoni pizza was taking too long to cook, records show.

The story mentions that he’s almost as old as I am. You’d think he’d know better than to start swinging his portable phallus about in a pizza joint.

Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

More politeness on the pavement:

Gunfire hit (Nashville Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea–ed,) Myles’ passenger in the hand and leg. The passenger, who police identified as a 25-year-old Nashville resident, is being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Myles was driving a Toyota Prius westbound on I-440 when the shooting took place at about 8:50pm, police said. Investigators said a speeding white sedan was weaving in and out of the interstate traffic and passed the Prius on the left shoulder.

Then the sedan swerved into a lane to the right of the Prius and slowed down before someone inside opened fire onto the Prius’ passenger side.

We are a broken society.

Settle arguments with your romantic partner with politeness.