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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.

Demonstrate politeness to the children:

Police say a central Vermont man has been charged after he accidentally shot himself while babysitting a pair of children.

Vermont State Police are investigating after the 26-year-old babysitter discharged the weapon Saturday night near the children — ages 1 and 2 — in Bridgewater, located 17 miles east of Rutland.

Be polite to animals.

Police have charged an 18-year-old man with shooting at a horse that was pulling a buggy carrying an Amish family in Somerset County.

State police said Caleb Gotjen of Garrett, Somerset County, fired at the horse as it was hauling a buggy carrying Marie and Marvin Yoder and their 1-year-old daughter on Oct. 4 in Summit.

And, in more news of the polite . . . .

Yet another expedition in the hunt for politeness:

Deputies say the (10-year old–ed.) boy was sitting on the floorboard of a four-wheeler when a hunting companion pulled alongside the vehicle.

They say the man got off his four-wheeler and was removing his rifle when it went off, hitting the boy.A medical flight crew pronounced the boy dead at the scene.

Demonstrate politeness at the community sporting event.

Gunshots were fired in the West Charlotte High parking lot Friday just after a homecoming football game against Vance High School, but Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say no one was shot, WBTV, the Observer’s news partner, reported.

In related news, I was talking to a friend about all those shootings that occur while gun nuts are “cleaning” their ammosexual devices. He suggests that they are not cleaning their ammosex toys at all. Rather, they are fondling them to climax practicing quick draws and are too embarrassed to say so.

Via Job’s Anger.

Play politely during your overnight stay.

“Two adults [were] handling a firearm accidentally [one] shot the other in the arm,” said police Sgt. David Lefont.The person first claimed to have been shot at a Texaco gas station. Police later said the accidental shooting happened in a room at the La Quinta at 1910 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard.

Via Job’s Anger.

Take politeness with you on a family outing.

The sheriff said the men had three loaded weapons on a picnic table Friday afternoon and were discussing one when the younger boy picked up one of the guns and it fired. The older boy was struck in the head and died at the scene. No one else was hurt.

Shawn Huber tries to understand the lure of firearms. Here’s a nugget.

What we get out of guns doesn’t get enough airtime, but it comes to my mind every time there’s another mass shooting like the one in Oregon, followed by another fruitless national fight. Years after I left what President Barack Obama once famously called the “guns and religion” belt of Pennsylvania, an astute Los Angeles psychologist put it to me this way: Yes, the right to carry a gun is a civil liberty, constitutionally protected. But whatever their other uses, firearms also are a lot like liquor and pornography and tobacco.

“Guns,” he said bluntly, “are a vice.”

Unlike speech, or assembly, or voting or other liberties in the Constitution, guns are for killing. That gives people, even nice people, a sense of power, a rush.

The hunt for politeness marches on.

Luke Burns, 16, an Exeter Union High School student, was hunting with family and friends just before 8 a.m. near Horse Meadow when he wandered in front of hunters. He was hidden behind some brush when another hunter fired and struck the boy in the torso.

And, in more news of the polite . . . .

. . . and a polite society is a clean society.

Deputies say 21-year-old Riley Cottrell was cleaning his gun when it accidentally discharged, hitting him in the leg. He was treated by medics on the scene but then taken by CareFlight to Miami Valley Hospital.

Maybe it’s just me, but I used to make sure my rifle was unloaded before ramming the cleaning wad down the barrel.

Play with politeness.

Edwards said Baker and the suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, got into a fight after the suspect walked into Baker’s bedroom and knocked a video game controller out of the victim’s hand. At that time, both men began to wrestle with each other and at some point a gun was removed from the suspect’s waist.

The two then began to fight over the gun, and it discharged, hitting Baker in the chest.

Had both of them been packing, no doubt no one would have been hurt.

Be polite to your mother.

Nayback’s daughter, Aleeah Wayne, 27, told investigators she was shooting steel targets with a 9 mm handgun when “a bullet ricocheted” off and struck her mother, Hilldsale Sheriff Stan Burchardt said.

Nayback had been walking down the road at the time of the incident, while the steel targets were placed on the ground in the woods, according to the release.

Steel targets. Words fail me.

American Moloch.

Via Job’s Anger.

The hunt for politeness continues.

Donald Upton, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, was hunting about 10 miles west of West Siloam Springs when another hunter shot him, according to the OSBI.

Upton, 28, was taken to an Arkansas hospital, where he died from his injuries.

I’m sure he looked just a bear or a rabbit or whatever the other fellow was hunting.

Get a load of all this politeness:

Sheriff Donnie Harrison said 20-year-old David Padron was disassembling a gun and didn’t realize it was loaded before it went off. The bullet hit his brother, 22-year-old Jesus Padron.

“He was just taking the bullets out of his weapon because there were kids in the house and he wanted to make sure it was empty,” said Sheriff Harrison.

Er, yeah.

Right.