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Families enable politeness.

Merrillville Police Cmdr. Jeff Rice said Irby took a gun from his parents’ bedrooom and went to his room, where the gun discharged.

The child suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, Rice said.

Show courtesy on the highways, especially after a near miss.

Flores told deputies Duenes followed him and rear-ended his vehicle. Flores said after the collision, Duenes got out of his vehicle and started towards Flores, who was still in his vehicle. Flores told investigators he leaned back and fired a gun towards Duenes and the ground, and then saw Duenes limp back to his vehicle. Flores said after the shooting, he drove home and later got rid of the gun.

Every city, Dodge City; every hill, Boot Hill.

Display indiscriminate politeness.

Roanoke police have arrested a man after reports of someone firing multiple shots with a high-powered gun from a northwest Roanoke motel roof this evening.

Police spokesman Scott Leamon said the person was taken into custody by heavily armed SWAT officers around 6:30 p.m., more than an hour and a half after someone began firing shots from the roof of the Starlite Motel in the 4400 block of Melrose Avenue Northwest.

And in more news of the polite . . . .

A South Carolina woman shot and accidentally killed a friend while testing out his bulletproof vest.

Sheriff’s deputies in Anderson County said the victim, 26-year-old Blake Wardell, had been hanging out in a garage with about eight to 10 friends early Wednesday when they decided to try out the Kevlar vest.

Investigators said 18-year-old Taylor Ann Kelly fired a shot at Wardell’s chest but missed the Kevlar.

Somewhat surprisingly, police found that everyone involved was sober. The results of the IQ tests, though, have not come in.

Afterthought:

So there really is a “Starlite Motel.” Who woulda thunk?

Politeness means keeping it clean.

A couple of hours later, the man decided to clean the rifle, police said. He claims he took the magazine out and cleared the gun, but when he sat down, his finger accidentally pulled the trigger and a chambered round discharged, according to Weber County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lane Findlay.

The bullet struck the man’s 49-year-old father, shattering his femur, Findlay said.

Bring politeness to the playground.

Outdoor activities have been suspended at a Clayton County elementary school after a student was shot with a BB gun Tuesday afternoon, according to reports.

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“There was a shot fired from the community beyond the tree line from the school,” Gavalas said. “We don’t know who fired the shot, why the shot was fired, was it a stray shot.”

The kids will not be permitted to play outside for the rest of the school year.

Turkeys are not bald.

A New Hampshire man could face criminal charges and lose his hunting license after he shot his cousin in the head while turkey hunting over the weekend.

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Kenneth Ranfos, who has been hunting with his cousin for 40 years, shot him from just 30 yards away with a shotgun. WBZ speculated that Kenneth Ranfos may have mistaken his cousin’s bald head for a turkey when he quickly removed his hat.

Yet another person too stupid to touch firearms.

They won’t stop until every city is Dodge City; every hill, Boot Hill.

Politeness sometimes demands a little varmint control.

A 22-year-old woman is dead after a farmer mistakenly shot her thinking she was a groundhog in tall grass.

Stark County Sheriff George Maier says Natasha Stover was shooting targets Monday with a BB gun when she laid down in the grass. Farmer Ralph Adams Jr., 79, thought she was a groundhog and fired a rifle about 165 feet away, hitting Stover in the head.

Via Southern Beale.

Afterthought:

Whatcha wanna bet this is filed under “tragic accident” rather than “negligent homicide” because old white man?

When you unload on a friend, be sure to do so politely.

The Chattanooga Police Department reported that it responded to 124 South Moss Ave. today where a woman had been shot accidentally in her foot by a friend trying to unload a handgun.

Play with yourself, politely.

Police say Boyd and his friend, the victim in this case, were walking back from a party on campus when Boyd pulled the gun out and began playing with it.

“At some point around the baseball field, Mr. Boyd produces a firearm and is playing with the slide and the gun accidentally discharges shooting him in the leg,” Capt. Robert Swanigan, of Georgetown Police, tells us.

Boyd is being held in the Scott County Detention Center charged with first degree wanton endangerment.

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Party politely.

Charges were filed Tuesday in the shooting death of a 23-year-old Saint Vincent College student who police say was accidentally killed by a childhood friend last month during a late-night party at a house in Erie.

Rear your progeny with politeness.

A 63-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his grandson after he didn’t have dinner ready on time.

More good guys with guns:

An unidentified man was injured May 4 when he accidentally shot himself at one of the gun ranges at the Wyoming Antelope Club, 3700 126th Ave. N. in Pinellas Park.

I know a little bit about guns. There is no excuse for this.

Take your choice: stupid or incompetent?

Either way, he shouldn’t be allowed to touch a firearm. Next time, he might hurt someone else.

Shoot first, ask questions later.

This sort of stuff is a side-effect of the NRA’s adoption of fear as a sales tactic.

Politeness at play.

The two suspects, both 16, were playing with guns in the back seat of the car. Investigators say one of the teenagers, a relative of Castro’s, touched a trigger of a gun and fired a single shot into her back. She died at the scene.

Yet more familial politeness (emphasis added):

A 16-year-old boy accidentally shot and wounded his brother with a shotgun late Wednesday at their Pico Rivera home, authorities said.

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The young men apparently discovered a shotgun in the home and were handling it when it discharged, striking the older brother, Chapman said.

I wonder whether the shotgun sneaked in on its own or was an invited guest.

I grew up with guns.

We knew where the guns were and were taught when and how to “handle” them.

It always seems to come back to who you know.

Politeness must be practiced from an early age.

Police tell us the shooting was accidental. It happened around 2:00 pm at the boy’s home in the 1300 block of North Pennsylvania Avenue.

Neighbors call the one-year-old boy’s death heartrending and say they’re praying for his family.

It is difficult not to wonder whether some gun nuts just want to know what if feels like to kill someone.

A youngster gives politeness a shot:

Louisville police say a four-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the face and went to Kosair Children’s Hospital with critical condition with life-threatening injuries.

The story goes on to say that authorities have not yet figured out how he got the politeness stick.