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Up close and polite:

Michael Nelson told a 911 dispatcher he didn’t know the rifle was loaded when he put it to his host’s chest, pulled the trigger and killed him, according to the criminal complaint filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Er, yeah.

Hard Core Pawn, the polite way:

A man was taken to the hospital after police said he was accidentally shot by his coworker in the hand, and a fragment of the bullet hit his face.The man was shot by accident with a rifle being stored in a pawn shop warehouse inside the same building as the Parkway Flea Market, St. Albans Police Capt. Jim Agee said.

Resolve workplace differences politely.

A Birmingham man shot to death when he tried to break up a brawl at the security company where he worked was there to pick up his first paycheck after taking the job just weeks ago to be able to provide his family with a better Christmas.

(snip)

The shooting happened about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday at I.P.E.S. Birmingham police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards said it started when a female employee was working off-site and learned she was being fired. She drove back to the office and got into a fight with another female employee. “It ended up being a pretty large fight with two females and another male,” Edwards said.

During the fight, one of the women grabbed a handgun, returned and started shooting. The woman firing the shots was not the woman who had been fired, police said.

. . . unless you are Not-White.

Hawk your wares, politely.

Police say Jones was shot by her boyfriend, 23-year-old Dylan Grubbs, who had driven to the parking lot to sell a handgun. According to police, the gun fired as he was showing it to a prospective buyer.

Jones was sitting in the front passenger seat of a SUV at the time.

Hunting for dustbunnies, politely.

A Greenwood man ended up at the hospital after he accidentally shot himself while cleaning house.

The man was wearing a small pistol while he vacuumed his home on Blue Nole Road this afternoon when the gun went off.

The stupid, it burns.

Via Southern Beale.

Conduct estate sales politely.

(Greenville, Tenn., Sheriff Pat–ed.) Hankins said the auction company was preparing to sell a .22-caliber rifle.

The sheriff said a man in the crowd wanted to take a closer look at the gun and, as he took it, the weapon went off. A bullet from the gun struck a 63-year-old Surgoinsville woman in the face. She was also there for the auction, according to Hankins.

Play politely.

A 14-year-old girl had to be flown to a hospital after being shot by a 7-year-old boy playing “deer hunter” on Saturday, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office said.
The boy was visiting a home on E. 310 Road in the northeastern part of the county when he got a .22-caliber rifle from a bedroom and said he was going to play “deer hunter,” the sheriff’s office said.

No adults were at home and the gun was obviously unsecured, but no charges will be filed because it was just all good clean fun and boys and their toys and all that.

Marc M. Dion explains how.

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Spontaneous politeness:

According to her mother, Kinzie Eisenbise was with a handful of friends at a friend’s house, when the shotgun went off.

Kinzie was struck in the right collarbone, and it caused critical injuries. Kinzie is being treated at The Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City.

Where do all these self-firing guns come from?

Take a hike, politely.

Investigators learned the man, who was not immediately identified, had been taking a walk with his girlfriend and had returned to the east entry of Presidential Estates. He was carrying a handgun and knew he needed to dismantle it before traveling anywhere because he did not have a valid concealed pistol license.

As he reached down for the gun and was handling it, he accidentally shot himself in the leg, police say. He was treated at Metro Health Hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening.

The hunt for politeness continues.

The Swift County Sheriff’s Office says 36-year-old Robert Schlieman of Detroit Lakes was shot just after noon Saturday while deer hunting north of Holloway.

Authorities say a deer ran between other hunters that Schlieman was hunting with. One of the hunters thought the deer was far enough away and started shooting at the deer.

I have nothing against hunting, at least by responsible hunters who obey the law and dine on their prey; I grew surrounded by such hunters. I must say, however, that trigger-happy hunters continually undermine their own pastime.

Canada is renowned for politeness.

An avid hunter is accused of killing a longtime friend with a rifle in what police called an accidental shooting that unfolded inside a Leaside home Wednesday night.

Officers found 23-year-old Campbell Smith with a single gunshot wound to his abdomen when they arrived at 111 Rykert Cres., in the Eglinton Ave. E and Brentcliffe Rd. area, around 10:30 p.m. The accused shooter’s mom made the 911 call.

Show politeness.

A vendor setting up before the (Expo Idaho gun–ed.) show says he was in the process of putting a plastic zip-tie on the trigger assembly of the bolt-action rifle when it suddenly fired. The bullet hit a 51-year-old man’s cane before hitting the man in the leg and hitting a nearby 64-year-old man in the leg.

Politeness is the cat’s meow.

Barry Fish, Max’s owner, told Fox25 the cat came home injured and in pain last week after roaming outside. When he took his pet to the veterinarian, he discovered the cat had been shot.

“We saw an X-ray with a picture of a bone, and it’s all shattered by something small, like a .22 or a pellet,” Fish told Fox25.

Be polite when paying.

The man was headed toward the register when his gun fell and fired a single round into another man’s calf, said spokeswoman Kristen Bentsen in an email. The man was carrying the gun legally, she noted.

“Open carry” is working out so very nicely, is it not?

Afterthought:

I ate at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day that the space shuttle Challenger fell out of the sky.

I didn’t need another reason to avoid them.

Politeness runs rampant in Colorado Springs.

. . . and it’s another day in NRA Paradise.

Be polite whilst preparing for school.

Lewis said the gun had not been secured and that the 5-year-old reached for the weapon as the children were getting ready for school. The 9mm pistol belongs to the family and had been kept in a bag, police said.

She will recover.

Bring up children with politeness.

A 2-year-old is being treated at Gulf Coast Medical Center after suffering what the Fort Myers Police Department called an “accidental gunshot wound.” . . .

A family member said the child was hit in the thumb.