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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.

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

According to statements made by the boy’s parents, it is believed that the boy’s father either placed or keeps a loaded handgun in a holster on top of the refrigerator in the kitchen, the DA said. The boy’s mother said the he evidently used a chair to climb up on the kitchen counter tops, and apparently reached on top of the refrigerator to get the gun, Johnson said.

The news report does say that the child is recovering in hospital.

And another responsible gun owner exercises politeness on the pavement . . . .

Police say the victim was attempting to turn onto Green River Road, when a dark-colored SUV ran a stop sign and cut off the victim’s vehicle. Authorities say the victim honked and yelled at the driver of the dark-colored SUV. The SUV’s driver reportedly parked in a nearby lot, and approached the victim’s window. Police say after exchanging words, the SUV’s driver pulled out a gun and fired several shots into the car.

We are a broken society.

Another child is sacrificed to the NRA’s leaden idol.

We are a broken society.

Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.

We are a society of stupid.

Party with politeness.

We are a broken society.

And, once again, we see that “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.

Via Job’s Anger.

Florida Man.

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.

Another child . . . .

A toddler was killed after his 5-year-old brother got a hold of a gun inside the family’s car, police in North Carolina say.

(snip)

Investigators determined the victim’s 5-year-old brother found a loaded gun in a vehicle, deputies said in a news release. Authorities didn’t say who owned the gun.