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Self-politeness is the politest kind.

According to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting occurred on Nine Mile Ridge. The woman allegedly was sitting outside in a chair with a .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol in her lap.

The victim told authorities as she went to stand up, she dropped the weapon and attempted to grab it. The gun discharged at this point and the bullet hit the woman in the upper thigh and passed through her leg.

(Broken link fixed.)

It seems that politeness is for the birds.

Earlier this week, two men were formally indicted for their alleged role in the shooting death of a golden eagle in Idaho.

Considered sacred by many Native American tribes, the golden eagle is protected by a trio of federal laws: the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Lacey Act, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Yet another gun left unattended,
Yet another life prematurely ended.

The sheriff said the (three-year-old–ed.) child’s parents were going door-to-door for a revival and briefly left their child in the vehicle. He said the child found the gun in the glove department of the vehicle, and the gun discharged.

And yet another day in NRA Paradise.

It’s eerie, is it not, how they never seem to know that the gun is loaded.

Be polite to other drivers.

On July 2, a truck driver was traveling along I-55 near the Memphis bridge when he passed a Chevrolet Malibu that was parked on the interstate. As he was passing, the suspect leaned out of his vehicle and fired three or four shots at the truck before speeding away.

The truck driver was not hurt, but the incident damaged the vehicle, the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Office said. The shooting was reported when the driver reached Tennessee, but Arkansas authorities say they just learned of the crime after the trucking company downloaded the video.

This is the second time an incident like this has been reported in the last two months.

Politeness is a family value.

Police say a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her father while he was sleeping in their south Wichita mobile home on Wednesday.

Officers responded at around 7 p.m. to the 2300 block of East MacArthur and located the 30-year-old man who had a gunshot wound to his leg. The girl’s hand was also injured. Their injuries were not life-threatening.

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

Lego maintains that politeness should not appear to be child’s play (more at the link; emphasis added).

A US gun maker has triggered controversy by selling a kit that makes a real Glock pistol look like a children’s Lego toy gun, at a time when hundreds of kids are falling victim to shootings.

The Danish manufacturer of the building blocks has sent the Utah-based company, Culper Precision, a demand to stop producing the red, blue and yellow covering for handguns.

“Our organisation reached out to Lego, which then sent a cease and desist letter to the reckless gun maker,” said Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action, which advocates for stricter gun controls.

This is truly twisted.

Be polite on the practice range.

Witnesses at the (skeet shooting–ed.) gathering in the 36000 block of Stearns County Road 171 told deputies the juvenile was unloading a 20-guage pump-style shotgun when the firearm discharged, causing birdshot pellets to ricochet off the gravel road and hit a 4-year-old, 9-year-old and 67-year-old.

(More about “no true Scotsman.”)

Party politely.

Once again, someone left a young child in a car with a gun.

Police said the boy was inside the parked vehicle when he accidentally shot himself, according to the preliminary investigation.

Thus ends another life in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

Once again, politeness proceeds down a public thoroughfare.

A man was driving his son home from a baseball came and politeness happened.

The chief said he didn’t know how long the shooting lasted or how many shots were fired. He did say the vehicles were traveling next to each other “for a period of time” on the highway, but his department has yet to learn what happened before they were side by side.

“We believe the shooting occurred on the highway,” the chief said, “and then after the driver was shot … the vehicle traveled off the west side of the highway, through the ditch, through some trees, through the fence and into the parking lot of the apartment complex.”

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

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

Gene Collier suggests that our proliferation of projectile pushers does not propagate protection. Here’s how he opens his article:

Believe it or not, you can still identify with high confidence a vast assortment of places in 21st century America that are relatively safe. Prior to the crazed holiday weekend just completed, those places included the 10th green at Pinetree Country Club north of Atlanta.Not anymore.

Someone picked that spot to shoot Gene Siller in the head Saturday. Siller was the club pro at Pinetree. He left a wife and two small children. Two additional bodies were found in the bed of a pickup truck parked nearby, slaughtered in a similar manner.

Follow the link for more tales of life in NRA Paradise.

We are again reminded that a polite society is a clean society.

What goes up must come down.

Be polite to your fellow travelers.

Officers say the victim, Reginald Coardes Jr., of North Charleston, was travelling (sic) in his vehicle with two friends when one of the friends, who was in the backseat, was handling a gun when it accidentally discharged, striking the victim.

Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal says Coardes died from the gunshot wound after being transported to Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital.

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.