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The polite can be cocky (emphasis added).

When authorities arrived on the scene, they found 52-year-old Ricky Bolton of Mora, La., suffering from a gunshot wound to his thigh.

According to deputies, Bolton told them he was raking leaves at a relative’s house when the cocked .22 Magnum revolver in his pocket accidentally discharged, shooting him in his upper left thigh.

Maybe he was afraid he’d be attacked by a rogue pine cone or a ravenous squirrel.

Now, about those intelligence tests for buying a gu–oh, never mind.

Politeness: It’s just one of those things, one of those crazy things . . . .”

Neighbors say a 4-year-old boy was spending the night at his grandparents’ home when he was shot in the head overnight.

Detectives with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are working to answer how did this happen.

Maybe it was another of those magical guns that fires itself? The cops ain’t saying.

Politeness is a family matter:

Investigators said that two stepbrothers, a 20-year-old and a 15-year-old, were handing a handgun when the weapon accidentally discharged.

The older brother was handing the handgun over to the younger sibling when it accidentally fired and struck the teen in the torso.

The older sibling is the son of a member of the constable’s command staff and investigators said the pistol involved the shooting was the father’s weapon.

There is now one less brother.

Politeness takes practice.

A man is recovering after his wife accidentally shot him in the leg at an indoor firing range in north Colorado Springs.

Inculcate politeness at a young age.

Dubuque police said a 2-year-old shot in the face earlier this month was wounded when either he or another child accidentally fired a gun.

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“We have no information that an adult was responsible for the shooting and believe either the victim accidentally shot himself or one of the other children did,” Engleman wrote.

One is left to wonder whether it a was a minor who left the firearm where it could have been found by a toddler, as no “adult was responsible,” or perhaps, in addition to firing themselves, guns now are capable of leaving themselves in places.

More likely, it’s that “responsible gun owner” is now an oxymoron.

Another day in NRA Paradise:

Georta Mack, 14, was skipping school and snuck back in his home in the 1200 block of Blanchard Avenue through the basement when his dad shot him at about 6:30 a.m., Cincinnati Police Sgt. Joe Briede said.

“I just shot my son by accident,” Mack’s father told a 911 operator. “He scared me. I thought he was in school. I heard noise and then I went downstairs looking. He jumped out at me. I shot him.”

He’ll never skip school again.

My local rag tells the story of a “responsible gun owner.”

Just read it.

I have nothing to add.

Addendum:

Denouement.

Politeness is essential to proper parenting.

The 18-year-old was standing next to his father in a north Forsyth house about 5 p.m. Saturday as the 42-year-old cleaned the Smith & Wesson .40 pistol, according to Epifanio Rodriguez, a spokesman with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

His father accidentally shot the firearm, wounding the young man in his abdomen.

More spontaneous politeness . . .

Authorities say a 4-year-old girl has been wounded in an accidental shooting inside a suburban Buffalo home.

Police say the shooting occurred Sunday afternoon at a home in the Erie County town of Orchard Park, just south of Buffalo.

Officials say firearm accidentally discharged and a bullet struck the girl.

. . . and another rogue gun that mysteriously fired itself.

Just another day in Gun Nut Paradise.

Via Job’s Anger.

. . . every hill, Boot Hill.

From the accompanying article:

We also know that states with the most guns (sic) laws see the fewest gun-related deaths. So it is in Delaware’s state parks, where common-sense restrictions on guns not used for hunting seem to have been a non-controversial way to balance the rights of hunters with maintaining the overall safety of park users.

Wilmington attorney Thomas Shellenberger, a spokesman for the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association (one of the groups suing the state), admitted as much, telling the News Journal that no particular incident prompted the lawsuit.

So why sue? To push an twisted idea promoted by the National Rifle Association that our Constitution places no restrictions on an individual’s ability to possess a firearm, be it park, school or your mother’s dinner table.

Sadly, if these faux patriots would stop professing their undying love for the Founding Fathers and actually read the Constitution, they’d find there’s only one place it outright bans the government from regulating an individual’s rights – the First Amendment.

In related news . . . .

Via Juanita Jean.

Just another day in Gun Nut Paradise:

Police say the boy was in a parked car with his 8-year-old brother when they found a loaded gun. The boys were handling the gun when it went off. . . .

Police say the boys were in the care of a family friend who works at the nearby Sparks Natural Gas station. James Howard, 63, was looking after the boys while their parents went to a medical appointment. Howard was working on a pump when the shooting happened.

E. J. Dionne skewers the hysterical rhetoric of the ammosexual lobby:

The apologists for the weapons industry – they pass themselves off as the gun rights movement – demonstrate their intellectual bankruptcy by regularly contradicting themselves with a straight face.

On the one hand, President Barack Obama’s modest initiatives to keep guns out of the wrong hands are denounced as an outlandish abuse of his executive powers. . . .

Yet there was the National Rifle Association itself making fun of Obama’s actions for being puny. “This is it, really?” said the NRA’s Jennifer Baker. “They’re not really doing anything.” The same NRA put up a frightening online video declaring that Obama is “our biggest threat to national security.”

These folks are willing to say anything–everything–so as to be able to continue fondling their ammosex toys.

Expose children to politeness at an early age.

Calvinyanna Sanders, 2, was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egelston in DeKalb County and is now recovering after surgery.

Police said another child shot the toddler in the torso around 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Wood Glen Apartments on North Cary Street in LaGrange.

No doubt, had both kids been packing, this would not have happened. At least, that is Gun Nut logic.

Ammosexual twits.

Seal your love with politeness.

Family members of Katelin Castile, 26, and Jermane Kennedy, 26, said their love ran deep. They were high school sweethearts who had three kids together.

However, on January 1, 2016 at 934 W. Washington Street Sandusky police said an accidental gun shot went off from Kennedy’s 9mm semi-automatic handgun. Castile was shot in the neck by her fiancé. She died at Firelands Hospital nearly two hours later.

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Police believe Kennedy was trying to show a friend his gun and the weapon discharged.

And another gun that fires itself.

When will someone get all these rogue guns that fire themselves off the streets and out of the hands of “responsible gun owners”?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Show politeness to your SOSO.

The woman called 911 and said she’d been standing in front of her apartment building on Edgehill Lane near Oceanside Boulevard when she was shot in the leg about 9:30 p.m., Oceanside police Lt. Taurino Valdovinos said. But investigating officers soon started to question her story, the lieutenant said.

They searched her apartment and found evidence that the shooting had taken place inside. The victim ultimately told officers that her boyfriend was showing her a gun when he accidentally shot her, Valdovinos said.

Guns and stupid–always a recipe for a successful relationship.