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Ernest Hooper is optimistic.

Gun control needs to be more about controlling the mentality of gun owners and less about the sale of guns.

A gun emboldens, so we end up with murders in movie theaters instead of an annoyed attendee changing seats.

He misses the point. There is an industry devoted to creating that mentality.

Gunnuttery has nothing to do with protection or rights. “Self-defense” is a smokescreen. The NRA (aka the “Firearms Marketing Group”) fosters the gun nut mentality, which is a weird combination of bone-chilling fear of Everyone in the World with a dash of High Noon, a hint of ED, and, in some cases, a dollop of sadism, so as to sell guns. Scaredy-cats are easy marks.

In gun nut world, fear is a marketing strategy.

Be polite in the “Shot Time II Bar.”

One man said he accidentally discharged his handgun while at the bar. The bullet went through his right thigh and into the left thigh of the other man seated beside him.

Their injuries are not considered life-threatening.

Sgt. Hunt said the man who had the gun has a concealed carry handgun (CCH) license and admitted to having several drinks while in possession of the firearm.

He also refused to cooperate with law enforcement, Hunt said. He was arrested for aggravated battery.

Drunk and armed–a combination which guarantees politeness.

Duck and cover.

Settle arguments politely in the halls of the moneychangers.

In a long hallway inside The Gallery at Military Circle, in front of the soon-to-be-closed J.C. Penney, a gunshot rang out Friday afternoon, sending shoppers fleeing for the exits and leaving one man wounded, though not critically, police said.

Military Circle Mall is down the road a piece and to the right, across from JANAF and about two miles from Military Circle, which used to be an actual traffic circle. JANAF (which stands for Joint Army Navy and Air Force) was the first major shopping center in the area (JANAF fell on hard times, then successfully resurrected itself). I drive by there several times a week. It’s a fairly typical temple of the worship of acquisitiveness–hardly decrepit, but out of style.

The Penney’s is closing for its own reasons–Penney’s never matured past the 70s, but they still carry great Oxford-cloth shirts, which, I understand, are not favored by the polite.

Be polite to your friends.

Police say Henry brought a firearm to a friend’s apartment and showed it off. He unloaded it and allowed everyone to “dry fire” the handgun. Afterward, he reloaded the handgun and placed it on a counter.

Later, Steele picked up the gun and pointed it at Holt, her boyfriend, and pulled the trigger. Holt was shot in the chest. He was taken to Delray Medical Center where he later died.

And in more news of the polite. . . .

Aside:

This is what NRA Paradise looks like, folks.

Via Juanita Jean.

Treat animals with politeness.

Police today announced charges have been filed against a Pennsylvania man in connection with the fatal drive-by shooting of a horse pulling an Amish buggy.

Accidental politeness.

A Neshannock Township man accidentally shot himself in the head Monday night with a pellet gun, according to township police.

He couldn’t handle the politeness.

Officers were called to James R. Hoover’s Sandalwood Drive home about 12:30 p.m., police Sgt. Tray Towles said. Hoover was reportedly handling a gun when it fired, said Towles, who had no other details.

And in more news of the polite . . . .

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall inherit the earth. Or at least a little bit of it.

Police in Salisbury are searching for two people after a student-athlete was shot outside of a high school gym while reportedly trying to break up a fight.

Sixteen-year-old Shaleek Williams, a freshman football and basketball player, was shot on the campus of Salisbury High School on Monday afternoon.

Sources told WBTV the shooting happened while Williams was trying to break up a fight between two people.

Aside:

When I was growing up, a trip to Salisbury, Md., was always a big event. It was the nearest Big City accessible without a ferry ride.

When you dine out, be polite to the server.

Angered that her order had been botched by McDonald’s workers, the Michigan woman fired a single shot into the restaurant’s drive-thru window around 3:10 this morning, Grand Rapids police allege.

Via BartCop.

More brotherly politeness.

A 9-year-old boy was shot and killed by his 14-year-old brother inside the family’s home in Mattapan today (Friday–ed.), city officials said this afternoon.

Politeness begins at home.

A 17-month-old girl was in the hospital Thursday after being shot with a handgun by her 3-year-old brother in Cleveland County.

Addendum:

More, from C&L.

Justin Carper, who is a youth church leader and writes an unpaid parenting column for the Shelby Star, said that he never imagined that his son could have climbed on a stool and and then taken the gun from a “secret compartment” on top of his dresser.

Parenting columnist. Yeah.

The truly polite do not play with it.

A Scottdale man is recovering after police say he shot himself through his left hand while playing with a handgun at his mother’s home in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County.

The hunt for politeness continues.

A local man (local in Maine, that is–ed.) told police he was trying to shoot a squirrel when he accidentally shot an ice fisherman in the head on Cobbosseecontee Stream on Sunday.

He was apparently anticipating hand-to-squirrel combat; the story says that he was “carrying a Chinese-made rifle, which had a folded bayonet attached.”

I was more careful with my Fanner Fifty.

Truly polite persons don’t play with it in the car.

A Florida man accidentally shot himself in the leg Friday morning as he was driving home from a firearms safety class in Boynton Beach, according to WPBF.

Eric Morkert pulled over to the side of the road and was inspecting Glock 17 when the gun discharged and the bullet hit him in the leg.

Practice courtesy on the highways.

Larry Dewayne Brinkley, 56, of Houston, was driving his 15-year-old daughter home around 9:30 p.m., when he cut off another car near Barrow Cemetery Road and Highway 61.

As the other driver, Leslie Larrison, 54, pulled in behind Brinkley, the two got into an argument. Brinkely went back to his car, took out a handgun and fatally shot Larrison.

Both of these upstanding citizens had kids in their cars, so an example of politeness was set.

Politeness is essential to building relationships.

A Moneta woman shot and killed her boyfriend Friday when he returned early and unannounced from a business trip and she mistook him for an intruder in their home, she told Franklin County sheriff’s deputies.

Of course.

Attorneys for Curtis Reeves Jr., the retired Tampa police captain accused of murdering another man in a Wesley Chapel movie theater last month, say their client should have been charged with manslaughter at most and is entitled to be freed on bail.

Tampa attorney Richard Escobar also maintained that Reeves was acting in self-defense in the Jan. 13 shooting.

Because picking a fight and then killing the person you picked it with is just how you roll in the gunshine state.

All snark aside, you must realize that these folks are sociopaths.