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Be polite. Help with the household chores.

Jack Bingham, 62, of 29000 Lyona Boulevard, was helping his wife pick up items that fell on the floor when a .44 magnum revolver he was carrying in a shoulder holster fell out of the holster, onto the floor and discharged, striking Bingham in the head, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

At least this bozo didn’t shoot his wife, like Thursday’s bozo.

Now, about those intelligence tests of gun licen–oh, never mind.

Celebrate politely.

A woman allegedly accidentally shot by her boyfriend during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Sacramento County has died of her injuries, according to Sacramento County sheriff’s officials.

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Through the night, detectives investigated the incident, which sheriff’s department spokeswoman Sgt. Lisa Bowman described as a celebratory act that resulted in an accidental shooting of the young woman.

In a startling development, this gun apparently did not go off on its ownsome. The boyfriend is in the jailed charged with “negligent discharge of a firearm.”

Ring in the New Year politely (emphasis added).

The Peachtree City Police Department report their chief of police called 911 early Thursday morning to report that he had accidentally shot his wife. She is now listed in critical condition at the Atlanta Medical Center, where she was airlifted.

The circumstances behind the shooting remain unclear; all that is known is McCollom’s service weapon discharged, and a bullet struck his wife.

. . . and yet another gun that goes off all on its ownsome.

It would seem that the gun nut slogan, “Guns don’t kill people; people kill people,” is demonstrably false. According to news reports, guns seem to discharge without human intervention multiple damn times a day.

Celebrate politely.

Investigators said the 68-year-old man was handling a pistol after drinking, when he reportedly dropped the gun.

A shot was fired, which, according to the police report, went through a couch, the man’s leg, and into his abdomen.

Note the passive voice: “A shot was fired,” apparently by unknown agency. The person who dropped the gun had nothing to do with it. He was an innocent victim who just happened to be in the way when whatever it was activated the firing mechanism.

A polite society is a clean society.

A 10-year-old was accidentally shot in the leg when his father was cleaning a gun that had not been unloaded, police said.

How is this an “accident” and not “negligence”?

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

A woman was shot and killed by her toddler son inside a Walmart Tuesday morning.

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The boy, who was sitting in the shopping cart, reached into his mother’s purse and grabbed her gun, according to sheriff’s officials. The gun went off, striking the woman.

If everyone was always packing, no doubt this would not have happened. The kid would have had his own gun and wouldn’t have needed his mother’s. Or something something something gun nut paradise.

Another chapter in the hunt for politeness:

Moore was hunting with a group of about 5 to 6 family and friends when one of them shot a deer, according to Captain Robert McCollough with SCDNR.

McCullough said they went back to find the deer and were following a trail of the wounded deer’s blood when one woman tripped.

The woman’s gun went off and accidentally shot Moore.

Have these persons never heard of a “safety”?

The hunt for politeness continues apace.

Tama County officials say three members of a family were preparing to go muzzleloader hunting for deer when a gun discharged, killing the person who was loading the gun.

Another gun discharges all on its ownsome, without interference of a human creature with agency. It’s the shooting singularity, I tell you! The shooting singularity!

Or, possibly, some persons are too stupid to handle firearms.

Play politely.

The two victims were playing with a gun Friday evening at a home in Cameron. The boys believed the gun was unloaded. It was not. The shot struck the 19-year old victim in the forehead and he later died at a local hospital. The second victim remains hospitalized.

It’s not polite to get loaded, so get politely unloaded.

According to WFSB, police found that 24-year-old Britney Koba has accidentally shot herself in the thigh when she was trying to unload the firearm in her car. Koba was taken to Hartford Hospital.

Be polite on the highways.

According to police, Ryan David Balla, 39, of the 500 block of Major Street, rear-ended a vehicle, and then aimed a pistol at a man and a lady as they were approaching to exchange facts.

Balla then allegedly rear-ended the car once more intentionally and fled the scene.

Two witnesses followed Balla.

Just after quite a few miles, Balla allegedly got out of his automobile, pulled out his gun, began to aim it at the witnesses, a man and a woman, and walk toward them.

Sojourn politely.

A man apparently accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in the 9900 block of Midlothian Turnpike, according to Chesterfield County police.

The man was reportedly putting his gun away for the night when he accidently fired the gun, and the bullet struck him in the leg, police said.

At least the reporter recognized that the gun didn’t go off on its ownsome.

Do you holiday shotting politely.

On Sunday afternoon, a 42-year-old man in the parking lot of Academy Sports on U.S. Route 70 accidentally shot himself in the leg while changing the ammunition in his handgun.

Officers at the scene did not release the man’s name, but said his injury was not life threatening.

The day before, a 24-year-old man accidentally shot himself–also in the leg, and also while he was sitting in his vehicle–in the parking lot of Valley Hills Mall, which is adjacent to the Academy Sports parking lot.

The man was attempting to put his 45mm handgun on safety when it went off and hit an artery in his leg, causing life-threatening blood loss.

“On safety.” Right.

Guided to politeness:

Cache County sheriff’s deputies say (hunting guide–ed.) Christopher Richards of the Sportsman’s Paradise Hunting Club was leading a group of hunters when the accident occurred Saturday near the town of Paradise.

As the 24-year-old Richards entered a small grove of trees to flush out some pheasants, a 12-year-old hunter fired a shotgun at a pheasant from the opposite side.

The injuries were not life-threatening.

Whatchawanna bet that, had that 12-year-old “hunter” been a 12-year-old black kid with a toy gun in Walmart, he’d be dead by now.

The distance from “hunter” to “hunted”–that’s white privilege in a nutshell.

Another chapter in the hunt for politeness:

Emergency dispatchers got a 9-1-1 call at about 4:50 p.m. saying that a man had been shot in the marshy area on the property.

When first responders arrived, they found a man dead in the marsh reeds next to the residence from an apparent gunshot wound. Police say the body wasn’t visible from the street.

The Sheriff said their investigation indicated that the suspect had shot the man by accident thinking that he was a deer.

Power-ful politeness, exercising their Second Amendment right to shoot at random stuff because they can.

The Bonneville Power Administration says people shooting at its high-voltage power line near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the Tacoma, Washington, area have damaged power line insulators. The agency is offering a maximum $25,000 reward for tips leading to those involved.

Mayhap they be afeared of the dreaded mythical EMP.

Great moments in polite parenting:

Adelaide Clinger, who attended Centennial Junior High, was accidentally shot and killed inside her home, 1941 Cooper St., on Nov. 23.

Kaysville police have released very few details about the shooting. But according to a search warrant filed in 2nd District Court, officers discovered upon initial investigation that “adults in the home were examining handguns.”

Clinger’s father placed a loaded 9mm handgun in his pants pocket, the affidavit states. That’s when a 10-year-old sibling “accessed the firearm and discharged the firearm,” striking Adelaide.

The investigation is continuing because these things take time.

The hunt for politeness continues apace.

While trying to shoot at some pheasants, one of the men in the group slipped in the mud and accidentally fired his 12-gauge shotgun at Newbold, striking him in the back.

Understand that I have nothing against hunters or hunting. I grew up with hunters who hunted.

It’s the stupid that gets my goat.

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*H/T Driftglass for “Crazy Uncle Liberty.”

Politeness protects progeny.

A Memphis Police spokeswoman and family members say a six-year-old boy accidentally shot his four-year-old younger sister in the face Sunday evening at their grandmother’s home in Frayser. . . .

Relatives say the little girl was visiting her grandmother, who kept the gun that was used for home protection.