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Politeness takes its toll on golden pond.

Officers explained that it appears as if a handgun was accidentally discharged inside the home on Golden Pond Avenue, with the bullet grazing the man’s wrist and hitting the woman in the neck.

Via Job’s Anger.

Woo the damsel of your desires with politeness.

A man in The Villages, Florida was arrested this week after he allegedly shot up the home of a woman who refused to have sex with him.

According to ClickOrlando.com, Sumter County sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gun fire at the woman’s home and arrested 69-year-old Howard Sparber.

Deputies said that Sparber fired dozens of gunshots to gain entry to the house, but the woman turned out not to be home at the time.

Via C&L.

Politeness. It’s catching.

Reports indicated that the 23-year-old requested to see a Glock 22C .40-caliber handgun carried by the 20-year-old male.

Police said before handing the pistol to the 23-year-old, the 20-year-old man attempted to clear a live round from the firearm’s chamber and remove other bullets from the gun.

While taking out the magazine and attempting to eject a round, the gun apparently slipped out of the 20-year-olds’ hands. As he attempted to catch the gun, the pistol fired.

Afterthought:

Note how “he dropped the gun” somehow turned into “the gun slipped . . . out of his hands.”

Follow the reportage of gunnuttery closely and you will see it’s almost always the gun’s fault. It’s never the gun nut’s fault. The gun mysteriously “goes off” or “discharges” without intervention of human agency.

Words matter.

There is a reason that, some years ago, the National Safety Council stopped referring to automobile “accidents” and started referring to “crashes” in defensive driving courses (and I’ve taken a few–something do with reduced insurance rate). Until gun nuts are held responsible in the popular mind for their gunnuttery, gunnuttery will continue apace.

In related news, a letter-writer to The Roanoke Times reminds us that to the victor belong the spoils.

Video via Kos.

Ah, the blissful innocence of school days, school days, good old Golden Rule days, in NRA Paradise (emphasis added):

Denver Public Schools is asking for nearly $4 million in an upcoming bond request to outfit all of its classroom with locks that operate on a button function, allowing students and teachers to secure a room without having to go outside or frantically find a key in an emergency situation.

(snip)

The $4 million upgrade is intended to streamline the lockdown procedure in the event of an emergency such as an active shooter. No need to put someone outside, go digging through drawers for a key or rely on one adult in a room full of kids to get a classroom door locked if a threat is imminent in the halls, said Michael Eaton, chief of department safety for DPS.

Follow the link to learn more about the joys of youth in the line of fire.

(I wonder how many books $4,000,000.00 would buy?)

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise:

On Saturday, (gun store owner and gun safety advocate–ed.) Baker was fatally shot when a student in a concealed-carry class at KayJay Gun Shop accidentally discharged a weapon while practicing malfunction drills, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The bullet traveled through a wall and into an adjacent room, where Baker was struck in the neck, the paper reported.

Play the game.

Via Southern Beale.

Draw a bead on politeness.

“This looks like a tragic accident,” Fontaine said.

The boy and his father, Patrick Ursiny, were target shooting in their yard at 4290 Melwood Road, Fontaine said. When they reset the target, the 15-year-old boy was attempting to reload the small caliber pistol when it accidentally discharged, hitting him in the head, Fontaine said.

No.

Unintentional, maybe, but, if you point a gun anywhere but at the ground as you reload it (or to do anything else except fire at your target), it can be called many things, but “accident” isn’t one of them.

In the Portland Press Herald, Bill Nimitz remembers the backyard games of his boyhood and has a moment.

Handguns for target shooting or personal protection? Hey, if that’s what floats your boat, be careful and keep them away from the kids.

But “modern sporting rifles,” as the National Rifle Association so euphemistically calls them? Manufactured and marketed to look like, sound like and feel like the same military hardware most recently used in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why?

Here’s my theory: Some guys still like to play Army.

Do read the rest.

Politeness cleans up at the confluence of guns and stupid.

Deyton told deputies he was using a cleaning rod to clean a Remington Model 870 20-gauge pump-action shotgun, the report said.

Deyton told deputies that when he put the rod down the barrel of the shotgun, it discharged.

Deyton suffered a non life-threatening injury to the left side of his face.