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Be polite whilst being transported in a motorized conveyance.

A 33-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn child were shot and killed in Laurel Wednesday night while riding inside a car.

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Ronald William Smith, 48, was sitting in the back seat and was armed with a handgun. As Smith was holding the gun, it fired one round through the seat and into Adams, police said, causing her death.

Smith told police he accidentally shot the victim. While he and Adams’ boyfriend tried to render aid, they lost control of the vehicle and it ran into the median.

Be polite to your fellow shoppers whilst patronizing the big box store.

A customer suffered minor injuries Tuesday after being shot when another shopper’s concealed gun accidentally discharged in a DeSoto Walmart, police said.

One more time, “accidentally” and “negligently” and not synomyms.

Politeness is a family affair.

A 6-year-old child has died after an accidental shooting by the 3-year-old sibling in Maylene in Shelby County (Alabama-ed.).

Via C&L.

Once again, politeness is child’s play.

And it’s just another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

Party politely.

The writer of a letter to the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky, State-Journal, opines that the (Andy) Barr has been lowered about as low as it can go.

Aside:

I went to Frankfort on business once. I have visited few cities in a lovelier setting.

One again, politeness becomes child’s play.

Keep politeness close at hand when you are in repose.

A 2-year-old boy and his parents were injured Wednesday morning when the boy fired a loaded handgun left on a nightstand in his parents’ bedroom in West Bath, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office.

Too bad.

So sad.

A Texas judge threw out the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy filing on Tuesday, saying the case was filed in “bad faith” in an effort to avoid litigation in New York.

More at the link (emphasis added in the quotation above).

Afterthought:

Many years ago, I worked with someone whose husband worked for the NRA. She was a capable and competent coworker, which is one reason why I remember her.

It was the early ’70s, right about the time the NRA morphed from being a hunting safety group (I actually had a gun safety class delivered by an NRA representative some years earlier during a high school PE class–I grew up in the country and hunting was a thing) to being a munitions marketer.

Sometimes I wonder how my old coworker is doing now after all these years . . . .

Show politeness to your significant other:

According to police, the victim advised that while driving her boyfriend pulled out a handgun to clear it when it went off shooting her in the left buttock. The boyfriend dropped the woman off at the emergency room at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Cambridge and left.

Celebrate joyous milestones politely.

The hunt for politeness continues.

A hiker on the Lewis and Clark Trail was accidentally shot by a turkey hunter on Saturday, officials said.

One wonders, was it his feathered tail or his gobble-gobble?

(Misplet wrod correxed.)

Thom debates a gun nut, busting myths along the way.

Resolve automotive differences politely.

Following the collision, the owner of the parked car approached the other car’s driver. APD indicates the driver took out a gun and shot the parked car’s owner in the stomach.
The owner of the parked car returned fire, shooting the driver in the hip.

The owner of the parked car ran away from the scene but was located by APD officers about three blocks away near the intersection of Montview Boulevard and Galena Street.

The story goes on to report that both men are in the hospital and at least one of them will be charged.

Suffer the children . . . .

Two children were inside a car parked outside Little Caesars on Fowler Street on April 25 when the adult they were with went inside to get dinner just after 7 p.m.

Moments later, several people heard a loud gunshot and saw the car filled up with smoke, according to the incident report.

One of the children, who was under 10 years old, found the backpack in the car with the gun inside. They accidentally shot themselves in the arm and another child, also under 10 years old, in the hand.

Florida Woman.

Operate your automotive conveyance with politeness.

Once again, politeness is child’s play.