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Sport your politeness.

In a related piece at Psychology Today Blogs, Michael Austin exposes the fallacy underlying the quotation that forms the title of this series of posts. A snippet:

There is evidence that an armed society is not a polite society.

Follow the link for the evidence.

Yet another responsible gun owner discharges his responsibility.

Yet another child is introduced to politeness.

And our society moves one more step to failure.

Share your politeness with your loved ones.

Investigators say the accidental shooting happened around 12:20 p.m. Monday. They believe he got the gun from an uncle.

“An uncle was visiting the residence. He does not normally live there, and he had a gun. The 9-year-old male found the gun and accidentally discharged, striking the 4-year-old in the head,” said Major Susan Cotter of Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

And again we are reminded that the elusive “responsible gun owner” is a creature of myth.

Shop with politeness.

We are a failing state.

Settle disputes with politeness.

Proceed politely on your passage to your point of destination.

Someone inside a dark-colored Volkswagen Beetle with California license plates pulled up to a Jeep Wrangler and fired multiple shots at the victim, striking him in the lower extremities, Castro said. The driver of the Volkswagen Beetle, which was occupied by multiple passengers, then drove off in an unknown direction, authorities confirmed. There is no description of the shooter at this time.

Yet another random act of politeness.

We are a failing state.

And yet another child is sacrificed on the NRA’s altar of lead . . . .

We are a failing state.

The polite get their game on.

Show politeness to first responders.

And still yet more random acts of politeness.

Show your politeness to others.

No, it was not a prop.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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 toddler . . . .

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

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.)

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

Politeness is a family value.

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

Yet another random act of politeness.