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Be polite to yourself.

Police say the homeowner accidentally shot himself around 6 a.m. this morning.

Police say the homeowner thought someone was breaking into his home.

He went looking for who he thought was an intruder – when his gun accidentally went off.

Because packing heat keeps you safe . . . .

Via Juanita Jean, who has more news of the polite.

G. Scott Davis, 35, was “messing” with a loaded handgun at his East Lampeter, Pa. apartment when his baby daughter Kestyn Davis was shot, Lancaster Online reported Monday. Police reported that Kestyn was shot in the abdomen and soon after died at a local hospital.

She was two months old.

Now, about those intelligence tests . . . .

Practice highway courtesy.

“There is mention of that (type problem) on the (911–ed.) tape. I’m not sure what exactly transpired. It appears to be a random road-rage incident,” Hicks, who declined to elaborate about the 911 tape, told The Associated Press on Sunday.

No arrests have been made, and the FBI has joined the investigation.

Police believe the pickup driver rammed Davison’s car into a grassy median, before the driver or perhaps a passenger shot him at about 2:10 a.m. The shooting occurred about 10 miles north of Hagerstown, Md.

Be polite to the care-givers.

A man shot himself to death at a Daytona Beach hospital early Sunday after firing at several cars and attacking a pair of nurses.

Because the aisles at Lowes are teaming with brigands (especially the lighting department) . . . .

Cheyenne police say a 22-year-old woman was shot in the arm after a handgun fell out of the holster on (sic) a 58-year-old woman.

Via Juanita Jean.

Be sure to make a deposit of courtesy in the snow bank.

He shot the floor, but he did not shoot the deputy.

Athens-Clarke County police say the 22-year-old Loganville man was carrying his gun between his belt and his pants at the Fatz Cafe on Wednesday.

Police say that when he reached into his pocket to get money for his meal, one of his fingers got caught in the trigger guard of the .45-caliber pistol.

In other news of the polite . . . .

More familial courtesy:

“Deputies learned that the 60-year-old homeowner was cleaning his 45 Desert Eagle semi-automatic handgun at the kitchen table when it accidentally discharged,” said the sheriff’s department in a release. “A single round was fired, which struck his wife in the abdomen.”

The lady is recovering.

Where I come from, you point the damn gun at the floor and unload it before you clean it.

This New Year’s, resolve to be polite to your toddler.

Be polite to your playmates.

A 15-year-old boy is in custody in South Carolina after shooting and killing a 12-year-old girl with his grandfather’s handgun over the weekend.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The Denver Post’s Rick Tosches muses about the latest courteous carryings-on in the Mountain State.

When you are hunting, be polite to persons standing behind your quarry.

A 61-year-old man from Disputanta, Va. had to be airlifted to the hospital after a hunting accident in Sussex County on Monday.

(snip)

They say the man was hit in the head with a shotgun pellet during an organized deer hunt with the Waids Hunt Club.

They say he was shooting at deer at the time when the shot went past the deer and hit the victim.

Afterthought:

If this is an organized deer hunt, I’d hate to participate in a disorganized one.

(Also, hire some copy editors. Pronouns are organizing an antecedent hunt.)

Addendum:

The victim did not survive.

Be polite in the checkout line.

WHMI-FM reports the 32-year-old man from the Livingston County community of Green Oak Township was shot in the buttocks Thursday evening at the Home Depot in Brighton. Police say it appears he was reaching for his wallet when he inadvertently grabbed the pistol and a shot fired.

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Via Southern Beale, who has even more tales of the polite.

Because nothing says rude like banning the rod.

Toby Keith’s new restaurant in Woodbridge has become a target in the latest dispute on gun control.

The restaurant, which only opened last week, displays a “NO GUNS PERMITTED” sign on the front door, according to MyFoxDC.

Politeness is a family affair.

The baby was killed on Christmas Eve by a single gunshot wound sustained inside an apartment at 2165 Old Philadelphia Pike.

The girl was shot just after 2 p.m. by a family member, an adult male, who was home alone with the child, according to officials.

The authorities have not yet decided whether this was a “criminal act” or an “accident.”

Picture politeness.

Prosecutors say a 23-year-old man was trying to take a group photo last weekend when Harper jumped into the frame. The criminal complaint says Harper and the group began fighting, and security asked them to leave.

The complaint says Harper followed three of the men back to their cars, and then fired a gun into the car where the victim was seated. The victim was shot about six times and injured.

Gun nut twits.

Practice politeness.

Authorities in Volusia County, Florida, are investigating whether a 69-year-old man’s death on Wednesday was the result of reckless shooting from a nearby resident’s backyard gun range.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Bruce Fleming was standing in his own backyard when he was hit in the chest by a gunshot. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

In the West Chester, Pa., Daily Local, Wile E. Coyote speaks out about efforts by a Pennsylvania state representative to establish a bounty on coyotes. A nugget:

And there are some who think it’s a bad idea to offer rewards for our heads, thinking that the incentive will lead to hunters taking potshots at anything that resembles a coyote — the neighbor’s Labrador or Fluffy the cat.

It’s a valid concern, but seriously, anyone who can’t tell a coyote from a cat really shouldn’t be armed.*

It almost makes you think that the Legislature is beholden to the roadrunner lobby.

But that’s OK. We coyotes have a powerful lobby on our side too, one that depends on our patronage for its business success, a corporation that has made good coin over the years serving the coyote community’s catapult and rocket skate needs.

You think the Acme Company is going to sit back and let this happen?

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*In a society in which men shoot their own children and the victims of traffic accidents seeking help so as to prove their credentials as macho men, methinks Mr. Coyote dismisseth this concern too lightly.