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The hunt for politeness continues . . .

Bennett had just returned from hunting with a friend and an adult shortly after 6 p.m., Calhoun said. They apparently were passing around the firearm when it discharged accidentally. Bennett was shot in the upper abdomen and died at the scene, Calhoun said.

. . . as yet another gun fires itself.

The gunnularity approaches apace.

Give your children the opportunity to be polite.

Police say a 3-year-old girl on Cape Cod suffered a serious hand injury when she accidentally shot herself with a gun belonging to her father.

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Investigators said a loaded handgun had been left on a nightstand in a bedroom the girl shared with her parents. Several other guns were also found in the house.

In an relatively unusual circumstance, this has not been ruled a “tragic accident.” The father has been charged with several crimes related to unsafe handling of lethal weapons.

‘Twas the polite before Christmas . . . .

A man with a gunshot wound to his leg was treated at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem and then transfered to LVH-Cedar Crest. Whitehall police said the man accidentally shot himself and that his injury was not life-threatening.

Lap guns; they’re a thing. Sort of like lap dogs, but with a stronger bite.

McIver accidentally shot his wife Sunday, Sept. 25, while the couple was being driven in his car from their farm in Putnam County to their Buckhead residence, a family friend acting as a spokesperson told the Daily Report on Sept. 29.

McIver, who was in the back seat, had a gun resting in his lap for fear of carjackers, and it discharged when the car hit a bump as they traveled through Midtown, the friend, Bill Crane, has said. The bullet went through the front seat, where Diane McIver was sitting, and struck her in the back, according to media reports and accounts from Tex McIver’s spokespeople.

The stupid. It burns.

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Be polite to your furry friends.

A Tooele (Utah–ed.) man is facing multiple charges including animal cruelty after police say he got drunk and fired a gun in his house, accidentally shooting and killing his dog.

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Tooele City Police say Collins had set up a target in his back yard. He was firing at that target from inside his living room, through an open door. According to a search warrant, inside the home officers found several firearms, including a rifle, shot gun and pellet gun.

Politeness promotes pediatric precociousness.

A 3-year-old boy has been shot at a home on the southwest side of Tucson, authorities said. . . .

According to Tucson police, a 7-year-old boy found a gun and shot the other child. Bay said it appears the shooting was accidental.

Pals play politely.

Wichita police Lt. Jason Stephens said Monday that it appears Nautica Whittker fired at herself unintentionally while she and other teens were playing with a shotgun in the basement of a house in the 1300 block of North Erie around 2:15 a.m.

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“There aren’t any charges being brought against anyone right now,” Stephens said. “We no longer have a statute that really covers securing or the proper securing of weapons or things like that.”

Demonstrate courtesy when cruising the nation’s byways.

A 3-year-old boy was shot and killed during an apparent road rage incident in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday when his grandmother took him shopping, police said. . . .

The grandmother was at a stop sign when a confrontation ensued, police said.

A motorist behind the woman grew agitated that she was not moving quickly, Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Steven McClanahan said.

He started honking his horn. He got out of his car and fired shots inside the woman’s car, police said.

Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.

Play with your partner politely.

A 22-year-old Everett man is facing manslaughter charges after he says he accidentally shot his girlfriend in their Everett apartment Thursday night.

According to a report by KCPQ-TV in Seattle based on court records, Jonathan ‘John’ Duncan told officers he was playing with a handgun when it “went off” striking the unidentified woman in the chest. She later died at an area hospital.

Politeness builds strong marriages.

Startled, when the wife returned to the bedroom, the husband accidentally fired his weapon thinking his wife was an intruder.

The bullet grazed the wife’s ear and caused no serious injury.

Thus passeth another day in NRA paradise.

A polite society is a clean society.

Bartholomew County Coroner Larry Fisher, who had attended school with the victim in North Vernon, said he pronounced Sporleder dead at the scene from an accidental gunshot wound to the chest. Sporleder was cleaning guns in the home with his son when the accidental shooting happened, Fisher said.

If you are cleaning a gun without first making sure it’s unloaded, that’s not an “accident.” That’s negligence.

Facebook firearms frolics.

The stupid, it burns.

Practice random acts of politeness.

According to a news release from the Stark County Sheriff’s Office, Campbell was struck following the accidental discharge of a firearm that traveled through a wall. Campbell and his family live in a house on Vixen Street NW.

The news release does not indicate how or why the gun fired.

Per the NRA gun marketing association, more guns means more politeness. For example:

The third male, who told News Center 7’s John Bedell he didn’t want to be interviewed on camera, said Justin Mapp, the 19-year-old Xenia man who was shot to death, blurted out a profane insult.

“All of a sudden they were trading blows,” the third male said of Mapp and the accused, Steven Bruce Brown Jr., 31.

The fight lasted only a few minutes, the third male said, and ended when Brown drew a gun “he always carried.”

Brown and Mapp were wrestling over the weapon when a single round was fired, the third male said.

Marvel at how much politeness there could have been if all three had been packing. Why, there might have been a hail of politeness enveloping them all!

Yet another case of being led astray by a person’s little white tail.

The charges stem from an incident in the Town of Dix on Nov. 19 when the DEC says Brooks shot his stepbrother while hunting. The DEC says Brooks illegally fired his hunting rifle two hours before legal hunting time at what he believed to be a deer, but it was actually his 24-year-old stepbrother.

The hunt for politeness continues.

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources reported that 31-year-old Shannon Heath Bell of Flomaton has been charged with illegal deer hunting that led to the death of another person.

The ADCNR said that at approximately 6 p.m. on Friday, Bell and Donna Loraine Martin, 35, of Flomaton were illegally deer hunting from a compact pickup truck on County Road 40 near Pollard Landing in Escambia County.

According to a preliminary hunting accident report, Bell was pulling a rifle out of the vehicle, stock first, when it discharged, hitting Martin in the stomach.

Equal parts guns and stupid with a dash of lawbreaking–that’s one recipe for a cocktail of death.

Be polite to the grocery store clerk “associate.”

Reading police were called to a Weis parking lot Monday where a customer accidentally shot an employee, a store official said.

Company spokesman Dennis Curtin said an associate was grazed by a bullet after a gun carried by a customer accidentlally discharged at its store located in the 2000 block of North 13th Street about 10:50 a.m.

Had the clerk been packing, he could have grazed right back at him.

The stupid. It burns.

Once more, it must have been the little white tail.

VDGIF (Viginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries–ed.) says a 17-year-old boy was hunting and mistook his 16-year-old friend, who was hunting with him, for a deer. The 16-year-old died at the scene.

The victim, according to VDGIF, was standing in an “agricultural field” and was shot from about 150 to 200 yards away.

The hunters were both wearing blaze orange gear, had taken hunter education, and had the appropriate hunting licenses, according to VDGIF.

Practice preventive politeness.

Sheriff’s Office reports indicate that a 21-year-old man shot a Metro bus passenger in Renton Tuesday for no apparent reason, other than he “thought that the victim was going to threaten him.”

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The Sheriff’s Office says the 21-year-old man admitted he shot the victim because he thought the victim was about to threaten him. He admitted he never saw a gun, that the victim never threatened him and that he did not know the victim.

Thus passes another day in the NRA’s Garden of Eden.

Defend yourself politely.

Deputies found the 66-year-old homeowner with a gunshot wound on his arm. The man told deputies he was asleep when someone tried to break into his house.

He woke up and got his gun, and then confronted the suspect. The homeowner said he was trying to shoot the burglar, but shot himself in the arm by accident.

Contrary to the John Wayne fantasies of the NRA gun marketing association, this is how “self-defense” commonly works out in NRA Paradise.