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Be polite to your mother.

Jacob Hanson, 28, is a married father of two young boys and a gun owner who likes to drive around with his gun in the car.

Hanson’s 3-year-old son allegedly grabbed the 9 mm subcompact handgun out of the driver’s side compartment car and squeezed off a shot that hit his mother in the back of the head, according to police.

Fortunately for the mother, the shot was not fatal.

Another good guy with a gun . . .

Investigators are looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 6-year-old girl Tuesday night.

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According to police, the girl suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder while handling an unsecured firearm that accidentally discharged.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

The owner of the gun has been arrested for “unsafe storage.” Follow the link and the reason that this was not just “another tragic accident” will be obvious.

Rear your children politely.

The coroner said Christopher Griffith, 3, shot himself in the chest at his home on the 2400 Block of Van Wedding Road.

“(We) did an autopsy today and he died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. All indications are is that he is the one that pulled the trigger,” Dearborn County coroner Steven Callahan said.

And, in more news of the polite, practice makes politeness.

Like banty roosters in the barnyard:

“Mine is bigger than yours.”

“Is not!”

“Is too!”

Words fail me.

Exit your vehicle, politely.

Police said the man and his wife were getting out of their vehicle when the man’s gun went off. He was shot in the ankle area.

The victim is a 63-year-old man from Beavercreek.

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Authorities say a northeast Iowa man has died after his handgun accidentally fired and he was hit in a leg.

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Investigators say the man had returned home from work and dropped the handgun as he got out of his vehicle. It struck the ground and went off.

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This “guns everywhere” thing is working out so nicely, is it not?

Practice random acts of politeness.

About 8:45 a.m., Duchesne County sheriff’s deputies were called to the private shooting range on the L.C. Ranch. Two men were reportedly practicing long-range shooting while another man, 61, set up targets, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.

“A communications error occurred between one of the shooters and the man marking targets, which resulted in the man down range being shot,” said Sheriff’s Lt. Jeremy Curry.

Note the passive voice. It would seem that no one actually did anything; stuff just happened.

Make politeness mandatory.

A Georgia business is now requiring all of their staff to obtain a concealed carry license and carry a weapon at work. “Everybody has one of these in their drawer or on their person. I would not want to come into one of my facilities,” business owner Lance Toland told WSB-TV in Atlanta. “It’s a 5 shot .410, just like a shotgun and you call it hand cannon.”

There’s a reason they are called gun nuts.

That whole “guns for protection” thing is working out so nicely.

Local media outlets report the shooting happened about 2:15 a.m. Monday at the Delux Inn & Suites.

Birmingham police Sgt. Rebecca Herrera says the woman was in the motel room when she thought she heard a noise. Police say she grabbed her gun that was under her pillow, and somehow accidentally shot herself in the chest.

And, in more news of the polite, yet more familial politeness . . . .

Practice politeness.

The sheriff’s office described the temporary range as east to west with targets west of the shooter.

“Father and son were alternating positions; one would shoot and the other would be downrange as a spotter.

When Glenn Shurtz was shooting, the release states, Jame Shurtz was in position downrange acting as a spotter.

“James was struck by a single round from a .30 caliber rifle,” the release states.

James Shurtz was shot in the chest.

iPolite:

According to police, 20-year-old Byron Devore was holding a handgun while face timing on his cell phone when the gun discharged hitting 17-year-old Gerald Levy in the head.

Levy was taken to a local hospital where he later died.

Investigators have ruled the shooting accidental.

He has been charged with negligent homicide. How come do you think this wasn’t just dismissed as yet another tragic accident? (Answer at the link.)

Be polite to your family . . .

According to investigators, a 16-year-old boy allegedly shot his relative in the head by accident while playing with a gun. Police have not yet determined where the gun came from.

. . . and to yourself.

Jesus said, “Suffer the children.”

Gun nuts said, “Make it so.”

Addendum:

More information has become available.

Investigators say the boy found a handgun that was kept in the home and accidentally shot himself in the upper shoulder. The boy’s mother and a 2-year-old child were home when the incident occurred.

As the twig is bent shot . . . .

A 5-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed on Tuesday evening. It happened at 71st and Canton, near Trinity Christian High School.

“Unfortunately, a child did die after being transported to Covenant Women’s and Children’s, from a gunshot wound,” Sgt. Jason Lewis with the Lubbock Police Department, says. “It appears to be accidental.”

No doubt, had the boy had a gun, this would not have happened. Isn’t that how things work in NRA Paradise?

Show politeness to your friends.

Jaytion Mays, 18, is recovering from a gunshot wound. Police say Mays fired the shot. His friend provided the gun.

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Mays told officers that he was at the Hartman address when a friend of his showed up with a gun. He said he was handling the weapon and it discharged.

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Be polite in your neighborhood mercantile center.

Based on emergency dispatch reports, an individual visiting Edward’s Jewelers in Clanton accidentally shot themselves in the leg.

The individual was visiting the business, and was in the back of the store away from customers when the gun went off.

Afterthought:

“Individual . . . themselves.” Jeez Louise.

For Christ’s sake, bring back copy editors.

Cleanliness is next to politeness.

Two Hancock County residents in as many weeks have landed in local hospitals with injuries after guns they were cleaning accidentally fired.

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Last weekend, a Greenfield man was cleaning a handgun when its slide jammed and fired, police said. About a week earlier, a Spring Lake resident was talking with a younger relative about firearms when his gun went off. He thought the gun’s chamber had been emptied when he picked it up to clean it and the device accidentally fired, police said.

And more guns that fire themselves . . . .

The stupid. It burns.

Now, about those intelligence tests for buying guns . . . .