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. . . but keep an eye on for those oxymoronic “responsible gun owners.” From The Roanoke Times:

As reported by Fortune back in July, nationwide the TSA had by that month seized more than 3,000 firearms at airports, at a rate of about 17 per day. Should that keep up through New Year’s Eve, the TSA will confiscate more than 6,000 guns, easily surpassing the record of 5,972 set in 2021.

Enough people have used the “I forgot it was there” excuse that TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein vented in a sarcastic July 1 tweet, “It’s time people stop claiming to have forgotten they had a loaded gun with them. They sure know where their cellphones are — just not their deadly weapons.”

Be polite to passers-by.

Yet more politeness on the highway.

We are a broken society.

Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates that that phrase is an oxymoron.

Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) discharges his responsibility

The National Riflemakers Association claims that guns don’t kill people (except when they do), people kill people.

That is, people with guns kill people.

We can’t get rid of the people (though people with guns seemed determined to do so, but that’s another post).

We can get rid of the guns.

Other countries have done so.

For example, we might try requiring intelligence tests for persons who want to buy guns, because

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.

We are again reminded that politeness is child’s play.

We are a pitiful excuse for a polity.

Yet another responsible gun owner feels compelled to reveal his polite side.

We are a polluted polity.

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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.

Yet another child . . . .

It is difficult not to conclude that we are a broken society doomed to failure by our own stupid.

Yet another responsible gun owner (sic) exposes his child to politeness.

We are a broken society.

Once again, we are made aware that politeness is a family value.

Be polite at the drive-thru window.

We are a failing state.

Mangy comments at the Youtube page:

Mangy Fetlocks grew up around guns and has a few himself, but he doesn’t believe God gave him the right to own them. Honestly, Mangy doesn’t believe that God is any more interested in whether Mangy has a gun than God might be interested in whether Mangy has a four-slice toaster or one of those blade balancers for when he sharpens his lawnmower blades. Mangy does believe God sends his own mower blades out to be done and has a “Holy Toast” brand 42-slice commercial toaster. (J.C. is big on toast. Says so in The Bible, if you read it backwards.) Anyway, Mangy thought he’d write a little song about this absurd linkage, in the minds of many Americans, between God and guns.

“What is scarier than one crazy driver with a gun,” Leeper said while holding up the booking photos of the two men, “Two crazy drivers with a gun.”

Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

Yet another random act of politeness.

The hunt for politeness continues, as an uncle bags his nephew.

Politeness at the junction of on ramp and through lane:

“I was getting up to speed he could not get in front of me, and the minute he couldn’t get in front of me because I evidently didn’t let him, he just pulled out the gun. The way he did it, the way he pulled the gun out, he just looked right over at me and squeezed the trigger, wasn’t even a warning or anything,” McEver said.

Politeness begins at home.