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Like Petri wine, politeness is handed down from father to son.

Acworth police said the father had just picked up his two young children from daycare while their mother was at work.

“Right now, all we know is that the child was left unattended and got a hold of the handgun,” said Acworth police officer Youlanda Leverette.

When officers arrived, they found the boy in his parents’ bedroom. His father told officers the gun had been in a holster on the bed when the boy apparently found it and pulled the trigger.

Keep politeness on the table.

A 2-year-old girl died after suffering a shotgun wound Monday in southwestern Henderson County in what appears to be an unintentional shooting, authorities said. . . .

A woman can be heard on a recording of a 911 call saying, “One of the guns was loaded on the table and I didn’t know it. A little girl was shot.

One is tempted to wonder just how the hell many guns were on the table.

Politeness is cleaning up.

The man told the deputies he was cleaning his 9mm handgun and wasn’t aware a round was in the chamber and it discharged.

And yet another gun fires itself just because it can.

Dan Casey stifles his qualms and explores some “gun-free zones.” Here’s a bit:

Mind you, a number of those executive branch offices are here in the Roanoke Valley. Last week, I visited a bunch for a pulse check on the level of fear. Were visitors extra jittery? Were employees quaking in their boots now that their workplaces were dangerous “gun-free-zones?”

I started at the DMV in northern Roanoke County and found Tanya Howell of Roanoke standing calmly outside.

“I think [the gun ban] is a good idea,” she said. “I feel safer knowing someone’s not going to walk in and shoot up the building. I’m just glad somebody’s doing something about it.” Score one for McAuliffe.

Demonstrate politeness at the children’s sporting event.

Forrest City Police are currently investigating a shooting where a 10-year old boy was injured. . . .

Police say the shooter was not attending the game where the child was shot, and believe it might be an accident.

Be polite to your neighbor:

Lt. Sean Edwards said the officers soon learned man was killed during some sort of dispute with his neighbor. This neighbor allegedly pulled a gun during the argument and shot the victim a few times.

It is not yet clear what they were arguing about.

Be polite during family activities.

The 20-year-old was working with his mother on a partially disassembled .22-caliber firearm about 5:30 p.m. Monday in their garage in the 3300 block of Zamora Way, according to Stockton police.

The gun discharged, hitting the son in the face.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

I guess this is what is meant by “guarded politeness.”

Be polite in your home.

He (Sheriff Lynn Sheffield–ed.) says the 3-year old girl and her mother were at home when the mother left the child in one room and went to the bedroom to do something.

The mother took the weapon off of the chest of drawers and laid it on the bed.

Unknown to the mother, Sheffield said, the child came into the bedroom and climbed on the bed. The child picked up the weapon and shot herself in the leg.

Be polite when seeking personal enhancement.

A witness told KVUE’s news partner KBMT that a woman was in the waiting room of a medical office. When she reached into her purse to pull out some paperwork, a gun fell out of her purse causing it to discharge. The round went through a wall and hit another patient in the hip.

Politeness: a little drop will do ya’.

Witnesses say a 45-year-old woman was shot in the leg and her 8-year-old child was shot in head when a handgun fired unexpectedly after it was dropped. The child was transported to WellStar Paulding Hospital where she died Sunday. The child’s mother was taken to Floyd Hospital in Rome for surgery.

In related news, Tom Hilton wants to know when is someone rein in the toddlers gone wild.

At Psychology Today Blogs, Marc Bekoff tries to understand trophy hunting and trophy hunters and concludes it’s all about the kill.

Juanita Jean translates.

Be polite at the picture show.

Law enforcement authorities in Salina are investigating an accidental shooting Friday night at the Starplex Theater in the Mall on South 9th Street.

“A man’s gun went off and I believe the theater was evacuated,” said Police Sergeant Gary Hanus.

Because guns in theatres are always a good idea . . . .

The hunt for politeness goes on. Indeed, the woods teem with responsible gun owners.

A teen is dead after she was shot in an apparent hunting accident Thursday afternoon in Anderson County, officials said. . . .

Robert McCollough with the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said the teen’s foster father accidentally shot her in the chest with a high power rifle, McCullough said.

The hunt for politeness forges on.

Davis had been wearing a .44 magnum revolver in a shoulder holster prior to the shooting. He was with a group of family and friends that had finished hunting for the day and were in the process of clearing their weapons, the sheriff said. “The victim was on the back steps to the residence taking his shoes off when the others heard a shot,” Alexander said. “They went out to find his revolver on the ground and him, shot in the chest.”

Why a pistol on a hunting outing? They’re only good for one kind of game.*

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*Long pig, in case you wondered.

There can be no such thing as too much politeness.

Officers responded to the 900 block of McCulloch Boulevard South at 10:57 a.m. Tuesday in reference to an accidental shooting. Police say Rod Iverson, a 70-year-old part-time Havasu resident, was cleaning multiple guns in his garage when a .9-mm handgun discharged into his abdomen.

Pythia Peay tries to understand the gun complex (no, not the interlocking network of manufacturers, marketeers NRA, retailers, and ammosexuals gun owners; the mental condition). I’m not sure how much of her reasoning holds together, but I do think it’s worth a look. Here’s a bit:

Psychologists today understand that when individuals act against their own better interests, unconscious processes in the form of a complex are most likely at work. These same unconscious processes can also operate in a nation’s psyche: that force field made up of symbols and historical memories accumulated by a people over time.

Certainly by that definition, America could be said to have a “gun complex.” As each senseless shooting blurs into the next (Umpqua Community College was the 294th mass shooting event in 2015 (link is external)) and still the country cannot come together to find a way to prevent guns from falling into the hands of the mentally ill, enact stronger background checks and sensible legislation that will keep assault weapons off our streets—protective measures that a majority of Americans would like to see (link is external)—then the American body politic is in the grip of a stubborn cultural complex.

Jurors ordered a Wisconsin gun store to pay nearly $6 million on Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee police officers who were shot and seriously wounded by a gun purchased at the store.

The ruling came in a negligence lawsuit filed by the officers against Badger Guns, a shop in suburban Milwaukee that authorities have linked to hundreds of firearms found at crime scenes. The lawsuit said the shop ignored several warning signs that the gun used to shoot the officers was being sold to a so-called straw buyer who was illegally purchasing the weapon for someone else.

Criswell predicts that the merchant will appeal, fully equipped with lawyers provided by the Gun Manufacturers’ Marketing Association NRA.