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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Monetize the politeness.

The two claimed to be in the shower at the time of the home invasion but authorities found a dry shower mat and bath. Investigators found evidence showing someone tried to clean up bloody footprints in the house. Authorities found a sock full of bullets, similar to the ones used in the shooting, placed in a way as if someone tried to hide them. Detectives learned Pelton had no money and her father was paying their living expenses. The couple then claimed the shooting was accidental and Teixeira got rid of the gun.

The motive?

The sheriff’s office says the couple hoped to get cash from the company that manages their home. They contacted a personal injury law firm after being released from the hospital. Deputies said the claim of thousands missing from the “phantom” safe is unfounded.

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Common Denominator 0

The New York Times wonders what could possibly account for the United States’s highest-in-the-world rate of mass shootings. Oh golly gosh gee, I wonder what it could be.

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Let the Massacres Continue 0

Daniel Ruth excoriates the response of Donald Trump and many others to the most recent American gun massacre. If his column sounds kind of tired, the words “most recent” in the preceding sentence may give you a hint as to why. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added):

Trump dismissed the Sutherland Springs tragedy as the perverse handiwork of an individual with “mental health” issues. “This isn’t a guns situation,” the president of the United States said before resuming his thoughts and prayers.

Even more bizarrely, Trump expressed astonishment that a gunman could enter a church in rural Texas and kill 26 people. “Who would think a thing like this could ever happen?” he wondered.

To answer Trump’s question there in second paragraph, anyone who pays freaking attention to the headlines, for Pete’s sake.

This is the very picture of weaponized imbecility.

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Hollow Hearts and Empty Prayers 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Arthur Dobrin explores the hollow hypocrisy of “thoughts and prayers.” A snippet”

The Hallmark card response waiting to be taken off the shelf is inadequate. It is action that is needed. When society realized that unregulated drinking wreaked havoc on highways, we instituted strictly laws around drinking and driving. Those whose lives have been devastated by natural disasters need to get relief in terms of aid that helps them rebuild their lives. When an illness becomes an epidemic, we need to not only stanch its spread but put in place measures that prevent a future outbreak.

If all we say is “sorry for your loss” when that loss isn’t addressed by action that prevents further deaths, then the expressions of sympathy can actually be harmful. Saying isn’t the same as doing. Saying the right words may make the speaker feel good but it only helps if there is some action attached to it.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues.

The Redwood County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting was reported late Saturday morning halfway between Milroy and Tracy. Investigators say a hunter shooting at a deer hit another hunter beyond the deer.

The wounded hunter was hit in the leg and was taken to a Tracy hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

No charges have been filed as everyone was wearing “blaze orange” and (I admit the following is my own addition, because I know how to shoot) stupid is not a crime. Bullets carry (a .22 will carry for a mile), and it is stupid not to make sure your shot is clear both before and after the target.

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Politeness takes practice.

Police said an accidental shooting happened at 3:45 p.m. The victim was in the woods target shooting with another person when the incident occurred.

Authorities said the victim was shot in the chest and died at the scene.

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From time to time, politeness may require empty gestures.

Authorities say a teenager who pulled the trigger on what he thought was an empty handgun fired a bullet that went through the family dog and hit his grandmother, killing the woman at the scene.

Kenny Payne, the police chief in Plaquemine, Louisiana, told news outlets that the shooting appears to be accidental.

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Be polite at the drive-thru:

Police in Ohio say they’re looking for a man who pulled out a gun after being told by a McDonald’s drive-thru worker there were no Egg McMuffin sandwiches available.

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Now, about those “responsible gun owners . . . .?

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Be polite to your neighbor.

“As I was getting ready to grab my phone, I heard a loud bang and my TV flew forward,” he said. “I thought at first that my TV must have exploded.”

He then realized after seeing his arm bleeding and the hole in the wall that he had been peppered by a shotgun blast.

Rosette said his neighbors and the person who had shot the gun came running after they heard him yell.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph, some of this stuff makes Three Stooges shorts look like Shakespeare.

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The hunt for politeness progresses.

A woman has been killed in a hunting accident on the first day of deer season in Maine.

Karen Wrentzel, 34, was shot dead around 10.30am on Saturday morning in a heavily wooded area near Hebron, Maine, in the first hunting fatality the state has seen in four years.

Family members said that Wrentzel was on her own property digging for rocks and gems when the incident occurred.

The story goes on to say that the property was not “posted” and that she wasn’t wearing “blaze orange.” It implies (unitentionally, I believe) that it was her own damn fault for looking like a furry severeal-hundred-pound four-legged animal in the eyes of the shooter, who is held to a lower standard because he has a hunting license.

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The struggle for politeness persists.

Meanwhile, investigators conducted an interview of Derick Shelton, father of the victim, along with his 13-year-old son, whose name is not being released due to his status as a minor. Through those interviews, investigators learned that Shelton had left the residence for a brief moment, and during that time his two sons wrestled with a rifle Shelton kept inside the residence.

While wrestling with the rifle, the weapon discharged, and the younger Shelton was shot in the neck by his brother.

Afterthought:

When did “Keep guns loaded when they are not in use” become a thing?

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The hunt for politeness goes on.

The incident occurred on private land near Forestburg. The man, standing at the end of a field, was shot in the left nostril by a second hunter when a rooster appeared.

The wounded man was transported to Avera Queen of Peace hospital in Mitchell by one of the other hunters in the group. The man received stitches and was discharged that evening.

I’m guessing they were hunting prairie hens, not nostrils.

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Self-politeness is the politest kind.

“An investigation by the ISU Police Department has determined that non-student Dominique Stulgate, 26 years of age, from Indianapolis was injured by a gunshot near Cromwell Hall Sunday night,” said ISU Chief of Police, Joseph Newport. “He was the victim of a self-inflicted accidental wound.”

The injury sustained in his right leg was non-threatening, but did require emergency surgery.

Clearly, he got a leg up on politeness.

The stupid.

It burns.

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An outbreak of politeness in Prince William County.

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Party politely.

An adult party was going on inside an apartment on Saturday evening when a guest started passing around a handgun.

“A nine-millimeter handgun was being handled and the gun went off and the one round that was fired did strike a 3-year-old in the arm,” said Sgt. Jason Nielsen, Sandy Police Department. “The 28-year-old father was struck in the leg with the same bullet.”

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News reporter says,

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Politeness is de riguer at one’s local public house.

A man was accidentally shot in the hand early Sunday morning after a concert at an Oregon City pub, police officials said.

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The hunt for politeness continues, and another gun fires itself–at least, that’s how the sentence reads.

Two men were near the Tualatin Wildlife Refuge when the gun fired. The sheriff’s office said one of the men was getting into position and pulling his gun up a berm when it went off, hitting him in the chest.

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Play politely.

The Scott County Coroner tells WKYT a 19-year-old was playing with a gun when it accidentally discharged and hit him in the head, killing him.

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