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Bullet points.

Penetrating parental politeness:

According to police reports, Bianca Bowers shot Jarvis Douglas on Sunday during a domestic dispute.

The bullet passed through Douglas and then struck Bowers’ 14-month-old daughter.

Be polite to family pets.

Authorities say a Washington state man fed up with barking fatally shot his neighbors’ dog in front of them. But the corgi apparently wasn’t the one barking.

The Atlantic’s Citylab site compiles an admittedly-not-exhaustive list of persons who have shot themselves in the john.

Be polite in the playpen.

According to officers, a mother was taking care of three children, two boys and a girl, when she left the house for a couple of minutes to get them something to drink.

Police said in that time, a three-year-old boy found a loaded .22-caliber handgun and accidentally shot himself with it.

Officers said the boy did not survive his injuries.

Parents, foster politeness.

A Charlotte woman was arrested Saturday after her 7-year-old daughter shot herself with a gun in the family’s southwest Charlotte residence, police said.

The girl was shot in the hand, and her injuries were not life-threatening, police said. Investigators said Heather Nicole Davenport, 27, faces a charge of failure to properly secure a weapon.

Via C&L.

Be polite at work and school, especially if they are the same place.

Officials say a Utah teacher is in good condition after accidentally shooting herself in the leg with a concealed firearm in a faculty bathroom at the elementary school where she works.

Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley says the gun went off while the woman was in a faculty restroom shortly before class started Thursday at Westbrook Elementary School, in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville.

Too stupid to have a gun, too stupid to teach.

Politeness requires that you drive defensively:

Gary J. Courtney, 56, was booked into Spokane County Jail over the weekend facing assault with a firearm and drive-by-shooting charges. Witnesses said Courtney hit the cyclist, a 30-year-old man, with his truck, then argued with him. Courtney pulled out a pistol and fired once in the man’s direction as he pedaled away, hitting him in the right forearm, according to court documents.

This has been your daily does of politeness.

Such politeness leaves me without words.

A Macon man was treated at Coliseum Northside hospital Thursday after he accidentally shot himself in the penis.

The man was parked at the gas station at about 9:30 p.m. when he attempted to holster his .45.

I guess the artificial penis tired of the competition and chose the direct approach.

Via Juanita Jean.

Politeness is requisite around the family table.

The 2-year-old son of a Clay County sheriff’s deputy was struck in the foot by a shattered bullet fragment and sustained minor injuries when his father’s personal handgun accidentally discharged into the floor of a Middleburg fast food restaurant where the family stopped for lunch.

The hunt for politeness.

Helvey was injured around 1 p.m. Sunday while squirrel hunting with family in the Uniontown area, the sheriff’s office said.

While attempting to get across a fallen tree, Helvey accidentally discharged his .22-caliber rifle into his shoulder, authorities said.

Jim Wright delivers another gem of a post, this one on ammosexuals. A nugget:

Listen to me, if one Muslim extremist is the face of all of Islam, then Ted Nugent is the face of the NRA. Quod erat demonstrandum. Period and you can’t have it both ways.

Read it. Read it all the way through.

No-fault politeness.

Richmond police said the death of a 4-year-old girl — fatally wounded Friday evening in her home by a pellet gun fired by another youngster — was an accident and no charges will be filed.

“After extensive interviews and in consultation with the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, detectives have determined this incident to be a tragic accident,” police spokesman Gene Lepley said Saturday of the death of Geonna Bradley.

Practice makes politeness.

Roanoke police say a man apparently was shot while at a Northeast Roanoke gun range this morning.

(snip)

Witnesses who were in other lanes of the range at the time told officers that they looked over to see the man injured, Lee said. Police are working to determine how the man came to be shot.

Addendum, the Next Day:

The police have concluded that this was intentional self-politeness.

Via Juanita Jean.

The polite want you to drive drive defensively.

Or else.

A Michigan man and his wife had just eaten lunch Tuesday afternoon and were on their way to pick up their children from the first day of school when they were cut off by a speeding pickup truck.

Police said 43-year-old Derek Flemming got out of his SUV at the next stoplight, approached the Dodge pickup, and asked the driver: “What’s your problem?”

The other driver then rolled down his window and shot Flemming in the face, killing him, police said.

In the Roanoke Times, Megan Doney highlights the hypocrisy of the Armament Advertising Agency NRA. A nugget:

Many gun enthusiasts resort to trite slogans in order to further their cause of destruction. The Virginia Citizens’ Defense League handed out stickers at the Steppin’ Out street fair in Blacksburg that read “Guns Save Lives.” Guns did not save my life when I was at work at New River Community College on April 12, 2013; the student who opened fire at my school was subdued by an unarmed security officer. Guns obviously did not save Charles Vacca’s life. In case we need any more evidence of the National Rifle Association’s utter callousness and horrifying lack of empathy, the women’s Twitter feed of the NRA posted an article called “7 Ways Children Can Have Fun at the Gun Range” a mere two days after Vacca’s death.

School yourself with politeness.

An instructor was wounded in the foot after his concealed handgun discharged in a classroom at the Physical Science Complex on the Idaho State University campus at about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Intelligence is not a job requirement for a teacher at ISU.