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Yet another responsible gun owner . . .

Deputies said the 12-year-old and a 7-year-old found a gun in a bag, gave it to a woman and while they handed it to her, the gun went off.

The woman said she gave the weapon to a man named Randall Cannon, who lives in the house where the accident happened, and he took it with him to an unknown location, deputies said.

. . . and yet another gun that fires itself.

Expose your children to politeness at an early age.

The 8-year-old boy who was found dead Tuesday at a home on Church Street died of a gunshot wound to the head after his father’s loaded 12-gauge shotgun went off as the boy was handling it, state officials said Wednesday.

Parker Stevens had been handling the gun inside a closet in his parents’ second-floor bedroom when it fired, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner said. State police detectives said the Mossberg shotgun had eight shells in the gun’s magazine tube, and the boy apparently racked one of the shells into the chamber before he fired the gun.

Politeness takes practice.

Officials say one employee shot 28-year-old David Lopez, another employee, during some kind of training at the Mission Ridge Range and Academy in Shavano Park. Police say that the victim was transported to a local hospital shortly after crews arrived at the scene. Lopez is in good condition at University Hospital, as of Wednesday afternoon.

Drive politely.

Police said they received a call just before noon on Saturday that a man in a white pickup truck was using a handgun to scare pedestrians. Officers found the vehicle near 415 Park St., and arrested Barreto.

Get an unload of all the politeness.

After an investigation, troopers say the 17-year-old from Wells River was attempting to unload a .22-caliber revolver when he discharged it into his right hand.

Whatever happened to “make sure the gun isn’t pointing at anything unless you mean to shoot it”?

Rear your children to behave in a polite manner.

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials said the 4-year-old boy got access to the weapon and accidentally opened fire, killing the 2-year-old girl.

Thus doth the NRA’s campaign for courtesy etch another bullet point in its presentation.

Be polite while patronizing the big box store.

West Springfield police are investigating after they said a man accidentally shot himself inside Costco Wednesday afternoon.

Police told Western Mass News the man was reaching for his phone when he accidentally discharged his gun at the Costco on Daggett Drive around 6 p.m.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Yet another person was fondling “cleaning” a firearm and offed yet another child.

Six-year-old Makayla S. Bowling’s father told police that he was cleaning the gun when it accidentally discharged, striking his daughter in the head. The father said he thought the gun was unloaded.

Thus passeth another child in NRA Paradise.

The hunt for politeness continues.

Michigan State Police say a man who was varmint hunting was shot Wednesday night by a resident of a home on Hodunk Road who mistook him for wildlife. The incident happend in Branch County’s Union Township.

The story points out that the varmint hunter was not wearing blaze orange. It doesn’t mention his (apparent) antlers and bushy white tail.

Facilitate politeness whilst in your motorized conveyance.

In a news release, spokesperson Sgt. Michelle Anaya said a 28-year-old Portsmouth resident was driving her son to a doctor’s appointment. While on I-64 near Mercury Boulevard, her son unbuckled himself and managed to find his mother’s handgun in her purse.

The woman, who told police that she was on her phone, did not notice until she heard a bang when her son shot himself in the wrist.

Every time you think it can’t get any dumber . . . .

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Pontiac that occurred early Monday morning. . . .

Police say a 20-year-old man had a gun under a mattress. The man told detectives he asked the victim to move from the bed to another location in the home. That’s when the gun accidentally went off, hitting the 14-year-old in the chest, police said.

Accidental politeness is the politest kind.

A woman and a young girl were injured after gun was accidentally fired at the Animal Rescue League on Sunday.

An unidentified 27-year-old man accidentally caused his handgun to discharge when pulling something out of his pocket, according to a press release.

Had the woman and child been packing, no doubt they could have arranged their own accident right back at him.

The stupid. It burns.

A concerted effort at politeness . . . .

Paradise regained, the NRA way.

A toddler somehow got his hands on a pistol and fatally shot himself in the head in a tragic accident in Fresno, California, on Saturday.

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

Rear your children to practice politeness.

A Friday statement by the department says a preliminary investigation indicates the 16-year-old boy was handling the gun on a bed when it accidentally when off. He was shot in the upper body and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Politeness takes practice.