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You can’t make this stuff up.

Snapchat, snap shot.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

And another child is sacrificed to the NRA’s leaden idol.

Another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.

We are a society of stupid.

Via Job’s Anger.

How stupid does one have to be not to make sure a gun is unloaded before starting to dissemble it?

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

Yet another child kills yet another child with a gun belonging to yet another oxymoronic responsible gun owner.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

And another “responsible gun owner” commits a random act of politeness.

And, in more news of the polite . . . .

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.

Attention, Walmart shoppers.

Oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” at the ATM.

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” treats his child with politeness.

We are a broken society.

Yet more random acts of politeness.

A substitute teacher takes her politeness to school.

The stupid, it metastasizes.

Politeness takes practice.

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

I wonder if that’s why WTVQ put the word “accidental” in quotation marks in their headline.

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” shoots himself in the foot leg.

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.

At The Roanoke Times, Tim Harvey looks at the recent surge in unprovoked shootings and argues that it exposes the fallacy of the NRA’s long-running “politeness” propaganda pitch. An excerpt (emphasis added):

Recent shootings across America teach us that ringing the wrong doorbell, or pulling into the wrong driveway, or retrieving a ball from the wrong yard, or mistakenly getting into the wrong car, or asking your neighbor to hold off on target practice until the baby wakes up is reason enough to shoot to kill.

(snip)

The assumption behind the “armed society is a polite society” myth is that someone being armed will change the other person’s behavior. These shootings reveal how being armed changes one’s own behavior. When the gun is viewed as the first response to a situation that is not fully understood — especially when a gun owner is disinclined to identify alternative responses — then people are killed or maimed unnecessarily. It is the tragic realization of the old proverb, “When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Yet another random act of politeness . . .

Spanish Fork police believe the bullet came from a pellet or air gun shot from a farming field across the street west of the facility, Lieutenant Clay Slaymaker said. There are currently no suspects.

(snip)

Day care employees contacted the toddler’s parents after seeing the child stumble, bleeding from the face, while playing in a fenced-in area outdoors.

. . . yet more evidence that “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

A Kentucky man shot his roommate in the buttocks after the victim ate the last Hot Pocket in the freezer, according to cops who arrested the gunman for assault.

Full story at the link.

Aside:

I’ve eaten my share of Hot Pockets over the years, especially when I lived alone, but, really, not a one I ever ate was tasty enough to be worth a jail term . . . .

We are a society of stupider.