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Friends forever, politely.

Monteagle Police Chief Virgil McNeese inadvertently shot his best friend and hunting partner, Stanley Whitman, while the two were pursuing wild turkey. The 41-year-old Whitman died from his gunshot wound in the hospital a day after the shooting.

Toddling into politeless.

Police say an 11-year-old girl was shot and killed in West Philadelphia Saturday morning.

Action News has learned that the bullet was apparently fired by a 2-year-old boy playing with a gun.

Large amounts of corporate money are devoted to make packing heat seem normal so as to sell more guns. Make no mistake–the NRA is all about sales; the freedom stuff is nothing more than marketing–marketing calculated to appeal in large part to paranoid nutcases.

As one result, persons pack heat; when persons pack heat, innocents get hurt.

Be polite to your friends.

It happened in the LionsGate apartment complex near 52nd and R streets around 7:30 p.m. Police say Felty was visiting his friend’s apartment when the friend accidentally fired off a gun, hitting him in the chest.

No doubt this will work out exactly as its adherents predict (details at the link).

The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that grants immunity to people with clean criminal records who fire a warning shot or threaten to use deadly force in self-defense. It also seals court records of those charged with firing a weapon, but later have those charges dropped.

All seriousness aside, this is more carnage candy for the diminutive phallus brigade, who will not rest until every city is Dodge City and every hill is Boot Hill.

Gabbing with gun nuts.

Get a grip! Be polite.

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office reported a 49-year-old man living in the 4500 block of Dover Street Circle East was home alone at 4:30 p.m. replacing the grip of his pistol when he accidentally pulled the trigger and shot himself on the hand.

Another mass shooting at another military base.

Politeness is a wonderful thing, is it not?

NRA Paradise nears fruition.

First son is stationed on a different military base. I think I shall be ill.

Politeness begins at home.

According to the complaint, Smith (the child’s grandmother–ed.) was holding on to the gun for someone else. She kept the gun in a shoebox underneath a bed.

One of the children in the house later found the gun, according to the complaint. While they were playing with it, the gun accidentally went off and (four year old–ed.) Keyontist Moffett sustained a bullet wound to the forehead.

More guns would certainly have prevented this.

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A question of identity:

WFMZ-TV (http://bit.ly/1mFuUur) said Monday that 27-year-old Zachary Troop of West Fallowfield Township, Chester County, was accidentally hit by a .22 caliber bullet in his upper leg on March 20.

Police said he was trying to shoot a rat when he shot himself instead.

Another gun that just went off all by its lonesome, because inanimate objects animate themselves at the confluence of gun nut and stupid.

District Attorney Craig Stedman said Davis was alone with the baby girl and was handling a newly purchased 9mm handgun when the firearm discharged inside his apartment in the 2100 block of Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township.

Words fail me.

Show politeness at the gun show.

Police spoke with event organizers and a vendor, and say they learned a shot was fired onto the floor by accident after the back of the gun was bumped. A vendor told police that the weapon had been returned to them as defective earlier that week, but during a test firing someone forgot to empty the chamber. The magazine had been removed.

Too stupid to touch guns, let alone sell them . . . .

Be polite to your friends.

A Milford man accidentally shot his friend through the thigh on Wednesday while he was cleaning his brand new .40-caliber pistol, police said.

Politeness unloaded.

Dr. Ruthanne Council suffered the fatal but apparently accidental wound to the head about 10 a.m., said Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones.

(snip)

DeFoe said the shooting might have happened when Council was unloading the gun.

Via PoliticalProf.

Play politely.

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy was killed when he was accidentally shot by his 9-year-old brother at a home in the southeastern South Dakota city of Freeman. Hutchinson County State’s Attorney Glenn Roth says that the older boy told investigators he and his brother were playing with a handgun Tuesday when he pulled the trigger, thinking the gun was not loaded.

Highly trained law enforcement officers throw the switch on possible perps.

A recent trend has led many officers to put themselves and others in harm’s way by mistaking their guns for a flashlight and pulling the trigger.

While the light is crucial for many officers while on duty the easily mistaken switch on their firearm could mean the difference between light and death.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Department hasn’t had any problems with this in the past, but the Bakersfield Pol

Words fail me.

Party politely.

Officials say it happened around 1 a.m. Sunday when the man was attending a party and got into an argument. The university says that the man returned to his car, which was parked in a school lot, and fired a gun several times in the air. Authorities then took the man, identified as Alex R. Marshall, into custody.

And in more news of the polite.

Practice indiscriminate politeness.

Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Peterson says 60-year-old Craig Bingham was leading a group of nine hunters from the Huntsville area when a number of pheasants flushed from cover, causing party members to fire their guns in different directions.

He says Bingham was standing on a small knoll about 80 yards in front of the party and was struck by at least three pellets during the flurry of shots.

More self-politenss.

Campbell said Tatum was target shooting in an area behind his home Wednesday night. His wife, after not hearing from him for about an hour, went outside to check and found him unconscious and not breathing.

She called authorities, and Iredell EMS and first responders came to the home. They reported that Tatum had a single gunshot wound to the chest.

According to the story, he was using “steel targets.”

Afterthought:

This is “Darwin Award” territory.

Addendum:

Johnnie Sutphin, who is a former law enforcement officer and owns a gun shop, showed Channel 9 two different kinds of steel targets Thursday. Both deflect the bullets in different ways away from the shooter or anyone else. He said it is very rare for a shot to ricochet right back at the shooter but it can happen if precautions aren’t taken.

My first idea for a precaution would be, “Don’t use steel targets.”

Jesus.