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Allow children the opportunity to be polite.

A subsequent investigation indicated the girl’s father had been cleaning his guns in the living room that day and left them out when he went to work. When the mother returned home later in the day with her three children, the 3-year-old accidentally shot herself while handling one of the guns, investigators said.

All roads lead to politeness.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a possible case of road rage where a hit and run driver left the scene of an accident after pulling a gun on another driver. . . .

Evaristo Castaneda, the driver of the car who was hit, told troopers when he approached the other driver the man pulled a dark, silver-colored handgun. Castaneda says the driver then drove off and headed south on I-75.

Get a leg up on politeness.

Tulsa Police say a woman is recovering from a wound to her upper leg after a handgun accidentally discharged early Tuesday.

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When questioned, police said the victim and a man were handling the gun when it discharged.

Demonstrate your politeness to your neighbors.

On Saturday, February 7, 2015, at about 5:30pm, the Sparta Police Department responded to an apartment on the 700 block of Birdie Court as a resident reported coming home and discovering a bullet hole in the ceiling and damage to personal property inside the apartment. . . . .

Officers spoke to 25-year-old Mark Hayes, of Sparta, who stated he was handling a pistol when he accidentally discharged the firearm. Luckily, the victim was not home at the time the shooting occurred and no one was injured.

This story is notable in that the gun was not reported to have fired itself.

Exercise courtesy on the roadways.

A driver was stopped behind a BMW at a red light on Rainier Avenue South and South McClellan Street just before 11 a.m. Friday, police reports say. When the light turned green, the BMW did not move, so the driver behind the car honked the horn. Instead of resuming driving, the BMW driver leaned out the car window and pointed a handgun at the honker.

Bimmer Boy is in custody.

Politeness is de rigeur at the club.

An 80-year-old man was taken to hospital in serious condition after he was accidentally shot in the arm at the Hamilton Gun Club.

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George said she doesn’t know specific details about what happened.

“It was just a simple accident, the gentleman’s gun jammed and then discharged,” she said.

I thought a gun that was “jammed” was unable to fire itself. In my world, that’s what “jammed” means.

Another case of self-politeness . . .

A 15-year-old was killed in Deer Lodge after accidentally shooting himself with a gun.

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He said Littell was at his home with family on Perkins Trail, near the Fentress county line, when he pulled a gun out of a safe. It went off and he was shot once, killing him.

. . . and another gun that fires itself.

Be polite when you are loaded.

Detectives looking into the incident reported that Huber was showing his Romania .762X39 mm AK-47 rifle to a friend. Huber handed the rifle to his friend, who believing the rifle was not loaded, pulled the trigger firing the rifle striking Huber.

Politeness is essential in the retail industry.

A sporting goods store employee was injured Sunday in an accidental shooting inside the store.

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Bruce R. Foote, 43, of Mebane, was on the floor when police arrived, suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper left leg. The incident occurred in the hunting goods area, where the store’s firearms are displayed. Police determined the round came from Foote’s own handgun, which he is licensed to carry, a release said Sunday night.

Yet more youthful politeness:

A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot his uncle in the stomach after finding a gun on the floor of a house, Milwaukee police said Friday.

The gun nut says he put the gun on the floor as he was preparing for a trip to the range.

When I was in high school, back before the NRA went from a hunting safety association to a gun marketing outfit, I think I remember this from one of the gun safety classes the local NRA taught during PE:

Step One: Retrieve gun from gun rack.
Step Two: Put gun on floor.
Step Three: ???????
Step Four: Freedom.

Then again, maybe not.

Be polite when you are with a patrolman:

As Officer Diaz approached the vehicle the driver began frantically waving his hands and arms at him.

According to the police report, upon approaching the vehicle, Officer Diaz learned the driver, Brandon Lee McCraw, 20, of 6402 E. NC Hwy. 108 in Mill Spring, had removed a firearm from a holster at his side to place on the seat and intended to advise the officer of his possession of a firearm.

In the process of removing the weapon from its holster, McCraw shot himself in the hip with one round, with an exit wound in the thigh.

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Southern Beale.

It is comforting to know that our young are being taught politeness at an early age.

Authorities say a 3-year-old boy got ahold of a handgun from his mother’s purse and fired just one shot that wounded both his parents.

Albuquerque police say the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon.

More guns in the purse no doubt would have prevented this.

Politeness must start at an early age.

On Carver Street, near New Roads, deputies say that a 14-year-old was trying to show a gun to an 11-year-old when the gun fired off and hit the 11-year-old.

Reports of the polite keep pouring in.

JPD (Jackson, Mississippi, Police Dept.–ed.) spokeswoman Colendula Green said a man was shot at 6067 Old Canton Road. He was transported to the University of Mississippi Medical Center by private vehicle.

It turns out the shooting was accidental and self-inflicted. The man shot himself in the leg, officials said.

He loves politeness so much that he sleeps with it.

A Deltona man who shot himself in the hip with one of two guns he sleeps with will not be charged, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

Volusia Sheriff’s investigators determined the shooting was accidental and will not file charges on Richard Cooley, 53, said sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant.

I dispute the “accidental.” One cannot be this stupid by accident.

Politeness takes practice.

Dawn Bryan told deputies that bullets hit her house, pool enclosure and a window, shattering it, shortly before 11 a.m. Saturday.

Sheriff’s officials say Scott Radford, 33, of Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, and Hillsborough Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Adee, 25, were firing a rifle behind Radford’s house when some bullets unintentionally hit Bryan’s house on the 3800 block of Porter Road in Lithia, a community in east Hillsborough. The properties abut each other.

The bozos clearly need a lot more practice in how to be polite neighbors.

Be polite in the produce aisle.

Police say they have taken one man into custody in connection with the incident. He is identified as 59-year-old Gerry Good of Gibsonia.

He is facing charges of two counts of simple assault and two counts of recklessly endangering another person.

“What had happened, the man shopping in Giant Eagle bent over to pick something up, he was wearing a fanny pack and had a .380 inside his fanny pack, when he bent over that fell on the floor and discharged, striking two other people inside the store with debris,” Chief Robert Amann, of Northern Regional Police, said.

Guns and stupid, always a perfect combination. And they go together so often.

Via Southern Beale.

More parental politeness.

Police say the boy was at his home in the 1600 block of Norton Street when he went into a bedroom where his father was sleeping and found a handgun. The boy’s mother told police she was awake in the living room when the boy went to the same room as his father to go to bed.

The mother told police approximately 10 minutes later she heard a single gunshot. The boy’s father awoke to find his son injured from a gunshot wound to the head.

Having more guns lying about will, no doubt, eliminate such events in the future. At least, so says the NRA.

Parent politeness is paramount.

Kevin Ahles had left his 2-year-old son, Kaleb, in the front seat of the car and returned to carrying boxes in preparation for a family move to Hernando County. Kaleb somehow crawled across the seat and opened the glove compartment, where his father kept a .380-caliber handgun, deputies said.

Kaleb then lifted the gun, turned it so that it faced his chest and squeezed the trigger.

This is gun nut paradise writ large.