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And still yet more random acts of politeness.

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Show your politeness to others.

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No, it was not a prop.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Musical NotesGuns 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.

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Yet another toddler . . . .

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

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” (Updated) 2

Sometimes the polite are hoisted on their own petards.

Aside:

Of course, no one these days really knows what a petard is. The only definitions I could find (here’s an example”) seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with hoisting.

Addendum:

See drouse’s comment below. drouse gave me a new perspective on that quotation from Shakespeare.

(Broken tag fixed.)

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Yet another responsible gun owner–well, you know the rest.

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Packing Elephant 0

Man says to the heavily-armed Republican Elephant,

Click to view the original image and the artist’s comments.

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Politeness is a family value.

The NRA will no doubt argue that, had the victim been packi–oh, never mind.

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Yet another random act of politeness.

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Yet another responsible gun owner ensures that his family gets a drop on politeness.

Opelika police say the shooting death of a 13-year-old was an accident.

(snip.)

Police say it appears that a loaded gun fell inside of the home and discharged, striking the victim.

The writer of a letter to the editor of my local rag yesterday listed many possible causes for the explosion in gun violence except one: too many guns in the hands of too many gun nuts.

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Yet another child is sacrificed on the NRA’s altar to (and of) lead.

We are a failing society.

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And another child encounters politeness.

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They had a vested interest in politeness.

We are a society of stupid.

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And yet another . . . .

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Incarceration Nation 0

At the Inky, Will Bunch uses the recent shooting (gang fight?) in Sacramento as a starting point to consider whether self-proclaimed tough-on-crime prosecutors, who tend disproportionately to target minorities and the poor (remember New York City’s “broken windows” policy?), make a difference. After crunching the numbers, he argues that they do not, despite their preening posturing and pandering to the prejudiced.

A snippet:

Zoom out a little to focus on policy at state level and you’ll find that Republicans have failed so far to implement an agenda that results in safer streets. Indeed, a new report from the centrist think-tank Third Way found “the five states with the highest murder rates, all Trump-voting states, had rates at least 240% higher than New York’s murder rate and at least 150% higher than California’s.” Perhaps that’s not as surprising as it seems, since conservative states tend to have a more entrenched gun culture, and laws to support it.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Practice random acts of politeness.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0

. . . and enjoy the politeness of your traveling companions.

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And yet another child who didn’t know the gun was loaded.

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Treat your sister with politeness.

And thus another life is Second Amended

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Yet another responsible gun owner . . . .

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