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Another educational day in NRA Paradise . . . . .

A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing “numerous” people, sending students running out into the streets and SWAT team members swarming in before authorities took him into custody about a mile away.

CNN is reporting at least 17 people are dead, citing law enforcement officials.

Politeness takes practice.

According to the sheriff’s office, the victim and two other people, a man and a woman, had unloaded their guns and were “practicing their draw.” One person reloaded a gun and it went off, striking the victim, according to the sheriff’s office.

Politeness is a family value.

Be polite at the drive-thru.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

Politeness must be practiced, not just preached.

A man was injured Thursday morning after he accidentally shot himself while participating in a concealed-carry class at C.I. Shooting Sports in Normal.

“It was an accidental discharge,” said C.I. Shooting Sports owner Stephen Stewart. “He was participating in a conceal-carry course and by state law, you are required to draw the weapon out of a holster. He just got on the range, loaded it and it was an accident.”

As far as I am concerned, there is no such thing as an “accidental discharge” or a fireman. The two choices are “deliberate” or “negligent.”

Politeness takes practice.

Authorities say a man was taken to the hospital after suffering a self-inflicted wound at a Salem shooting range.

Salem police say they don’t know if Tuesday’s shooting was an accident or intentional. The owner of the shooting range told two Portland television stations it was an accident.

Politeness is child’s horse play.

Mt. Morris Township police Chief Terence Green said the victim was driven via a personally-owned vehicle to Hurley for treatment of a gunshot wound she sustained to her leg during the incident.

The 18-year-old and a 14-year-old male sibling “may have been horse playing with the gun when it went off,” said Green, according to witness accounts and a preliminary investigation by township police.

Had the 18-year-old had been packing, no doubt she could have returned fire, the causalities would have canceled each other out, and no one would have been injured.

Or something.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

Practice politeness doggedly.

“We heard gunshots at eight this morning. Usually Tucker’s (one of her pet dogs–ed.) the first one in the house and he didn’t come up. So I went out and looked and couldn’t find him,” Harrell said.

The worry set in and Harrell followed Tucker’s brother Jinx into the nearby woods. That is when she saw Tucker’s lifeless body laying on the ground.

“He has one in the leg and two in the stomach. One in the chest and one in the ear. All I could do is cry. I carried him back up here. Shot five times at close range,” Harrell said.

Share your politeness with your friends.

Deputies said a 22-year-old man was cleaning his 9 mm handgun and showing his 20-year-old girlfriend how to safely handle a weapon when the gun fired. He suffered a graze injury to his leg and she was struck in the thigh, calf and foot and treated at Bronson Battle Creek.

er, yeah.

Politeness is a family affair.

During the investigation it was determined that a family member had accidentally fired the handgun, officials say. They did not disclose whether that individual was male or female, or whether the person was an adult or child.

This is the second accidental shooting involving a child in Jackson County over the past several weeks. In the other incident, a youngster sat on a weapon and received a minor injury to the buttocks but is recovering fully.

Via Job’s Anger.

And another gun fires itself . . . .

Officers said they discovered the victim with a gunshot wound to the hand. He was then transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Reports indicate the victim stated he was holding* a handgun when it suddenly discharged. This resulted in the ring finger on his left hand almost completely detaching.

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One suspects that “fondling” would be a more precise term.

Anyone can stumble over politeness.

Police southeast of Houston say a 4-year-old child has died after he found a handgun in the bedroom of a home and accidentally shot himself.

Washington State is currently considering a bill to regulate bump stocks, such as the one used in the Law Vegas shooting. The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat is not sanguine about its chances of passage.

The issue of guns causes America to lose its faculties. Nowhere was that on more vigorous display than during a gun-control debate this past week in our state Legislature.

It was a 20-minute tour of the absurd rhetorical lengths to which the gun-rights crowd will go to try shooting down even the most modest attempts at slowing the country’s mass-shooting carnage.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

Politeness is child’s play.

“The 13-year-old learned the combination of the gun safe, and took out a Marlin .22 rifle from the safe,” said Sheriff Nathan Dreckman.

The rifle was loaded and unloaded multiple times, but at one point the gun fired when the boys thought it was unloaded.

“Unfortunately, there was still one round in the chamber and the rifle discharged,” Dreckman said.

The 8-year-old boy was hit in the face below the left nostril.

. . . and another gun that fired itself.

Discovering politeness in unexpected places.

A 4-year-old boy is in critical condition after police say he accidentally shot himself.

Authorities say the child was shot in the face around 4:30 p.m. in Warren.

According to police the child found the gun in a car.

Via Job’s Anger.

Politeness is a family affair.

Rex William Pruett was shot at his father’s home in Campbellsburg, a small Indiana town located about 50 miles northwest of Louisville, Kentucky. Rex, a seventh-grader at Orleans Junior-Senior High School, died a short time after his father rushed him to a hospital.

“The father received a phone call and, while he was on the phone, the daughter, in what appeared to be unintentional (sic), shot her brother with a .22-caliber revolver,” Indiana State Police spokesman Chad Dick told The Times-Mail in Bedford.

Be polite to your friends.

Woodcock’s best friend, 21-year-old Richard Skillman, was at the party.

“From what I heard, they were best of friends,” Gomez said.

Woodcock and the other party-goers apparently had been drinking alcohol before he went back to his bedroom.

“He went into his bedroom, came back out, had a handgun, the handgun went off and struck Mr. Skillman in the chest,” Gomez said.

Sweden considers a murder rate of 43 (not 43 per something, 43) to be too high.