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If you are polite, ignorance can be an excuse (emphasis added).

The incident occurred at about 11 p.m. Wednesday at the alleged shooter’s residence in Gregory. Dostal was kept in Mitchell overnight due to inclement weather but was transported Thursday to a Sioux Falls hospital for treatment, according to the Gregory County Sheriff’s Office. He is in stable condition.

Gregory County Sheriff Tim Drey said he has not finished speaking with the alleged shooter but believes the incident was accidental, saying the man who owned the handgun was “just somebody who didn’t know how to handle a firearm.”

The story goes on to say that a decision about possible charges has yet to be made, but never mind it was an accident.

In related news, Funny or Die has obtained the NRA’s Guide to Guys with Guns.

Teach your children well.

“The victim (a 43-year old woman–ed.) was visiting family over the weekend and was being taught how to shoot a firearm by her father,” Vlahakis said in an email Tuesday. “While her father was handling the firearm and instructing her on the operation of the firearm, the gun discharged, striking his daughter in the pelvis.”

She clearly picked the wrong teacher, along with yet another gun that fires itself.

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the polite.

The 48-year-old man from Macomb Township suffered an accidental gunshot wound to his hand when he was handling his 9 mm pistol, Mast said. The man was staying at the campground at 8239 W. Hazel Road.

“He then chose to fire off another round into the bed in the camper he was staying in because he was upset that he just wounded himself,” Mast said.

We are all safer when persons like this pack heat, are we not?

Via Southern Beale.

Parents, be polite to your children.

A teenager who died after a shooting at a Florida gun range on Sunday was killed accidentally by his father, police said Monday.

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“After firing a round, the spent shell casing struck the wall causing it to deflect and fall into the back of (the elder) Mr. Brumby’s shirt. Brumby then used his right hand, which was holding the handgun, in an attempt to remove the casing. While doing so, he inadvertently pointed the firearm directly behind him and accidently fired,” a police statement reads.

“Accidentally”: the new negligently.

Via Job’s Anger.

Politeness starts stops at a young age (emphasis added).

A 3-year-old boy was fatally wounded in an accidental shooting Friday in Clarksville, according to police.

Clarksville officers responded to a 911 call on Samantha Lane. In a statement, police said the boy accidentally shot himself in the head with a .40 caliber pistol, but police did not say how he got ahold of the firearm, which belongs to the homeowner.

Thus passeth another day in NRA’s Eden of Execution.

Aside:

“Fatally wounded.” That’s telling it like it is, now, is it not?

Practice random acts of politeness.

Surry County deputies said Vue was working in a rice garden with her husband when she was hit by an apparent stray bullet. Deputies believe the bullet came from somewhere in the neighborhood, but nobody has come forward.

A fresh load of politeness . . .

The chief said family members told investigators that Nicholas was target shooting with his father in the yard before the shooting.

He said police believe Nicholas was reloading his small-caliber gun when it went off and struck him (in the head–ed.).

Nicholas was flown to a Pittsburgh-area hospital. His condition was unknown.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

The police chief is quoted as saying that the kid’s pointing the gun at his head while reloading it is somehow “a tragic accident.”

This polite fellow’s Jeep still runs on leaded fool.

The man brought his Jeep in to the dealership to be serviced. He was placing personal belongings into the bag and while doing so, one of the handguns inside the bag discharged, with a round striking him, police said in a release.

The owner of the guns has not been confirmed. Police said in a release “it is not clear at this time why the subject felt it necessary to be in possession of two handguns.”

Addendum, the Next Morning:

The driver in question was an ex-NFL football player with a history of ammosexuality.

Warning: Language.

Meet the gentleman who is doggedly polite.

A Sioux Falls man is accused of shooting his dog in the face with a handgun.

Police say 36-year-old Michael Schwarz was drunk when he shot the dog with a .44 Magnum. It is not clear if the shooting was intentional.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

Kevin Lee points out that, in NRA Paradise, there is no such thing as the common good.

Meanwhile, Chris Honore takes a tally:

Our shared reality is that some 30,000 people are killed by gun violence yearly, a number that surpassed traffic fatalities in 2015.

This level of violence separates America from all other advanced countries by a wide margin. Consider just homicides. According to the New York Times, in Poland and England one person per million dies in a gun homicide. In Japan it’s one person in 10 million. In the U.S. it’s 31 per million, or 27 people killed daily. In Chicago, over the recent Father’s Day weekend, 13 were killed and 56 wounded bringing the city’s total homicides thus far in 2016 to 300. If it were anything else (say, the Zika virus), this would be considered an epidemic of catastrophic proportions.

The hunt for politeness continues apace.

Nash had been squirrel hunting with friends along Lytle Boulevard, south of Vale. Nash was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked Ford Explorer while a second 17-year-old boy, also from Vale, was sitting behind him, Hicks said. The boy was reloading his .22 revolver, and the weapon fired.

The bullet travelled through the back of the front seat, where Nash was sitting. It entered his back and exited from his abdomen.

Don’t persons pay attention to where they are pointing their damned guns any more?

The stupid. It burns.

Expose children to politeness at a young age.

A 2-year-old New Boston, Texas, boy remains in the intensive care unit at Arkansas Children’s Hospital after an accidental shooting.

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According to the GoFundMe page, Jett found a .22 handgun while his mother was visiting a friend. According to the page, Jett fired the gun and a bullet hit him between his eyes and exited the top left side of his head.

There’s a GoFundMe page. How cute.

In related news, Daniel Ruth cuts to the quick. A snippet:

. . . it’s not “public safety” that drives the gun discussion. It’s paranoia dressed up in faux patriotism.

Image via Job’s Anger.