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Yet more random acts of politeness.

We are a failing state.

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

Ed Finton, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, saw the ordeal unfold.

“I woke up to gunfire,’’ Finton said. “My dog was going nuts.”

“I could see a guy standing in the middle of 80th Street with a long gun just shooting randomly,” he said. “When I saw that I called 911. The only thing I knew was the SUV had crashed into the pole.”

Just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

Think for a moment: what is the common denominator in gun deaths?

No, it’s not “death”; that’s the quotient.

Yet another random act of politeness.

Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrated that said phrase 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.

Yet another random act of politeness claims the life of yet another child.

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

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” is polite to his hunting companion.

Guns are instruments of death. They should be treated with caution and respect.

Words desert me.

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.

Politeness does the turkey trot.

Direct your vehicle upon the nation’s highways and byways with politeness.

Show politeness to your hunting companions.

Aside:

I think I’ve told this story before, but it seems germane.

Many years ago, my brother’s boss at the time mentioned that he was giving up hunting.

He was returning from a hunting trip when he heard a couple of other hunters talking.

One said, “Did you get anything?”

The other answered, “No, but I got off a couple of sound shots.”

And we are again at the confluence of guns and stupid.

Yet another oxymoronic responsible gun owner exposes a toddler to politeness.

Yet another random act of politeness.

. . . 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.