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Manifest politeness in all of your relationships.

An Indiana County man was arraigned today on charges including attempted homicide after Pennsylvania State Police said he shot his ex-girlfriend four times Sunday at her Westmoreland County home, critically injuring her.

Politeness is transformative.

Pittsburgh police say an apparent gun battle caused a power outage in part of the city, when a stray shot hit an electrical transformer.

Politeness is a family affair.

A South Texas woman has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of her 17-year-old brother as the pair apparently struggled over a handgun.

Hmmmm.

Wonder whether, had outcome had been reversed, the brother have been charged?

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You can’t make this stuff up.

Civil society, NRA style.

Politeness continues to abound.

Christopher Jackson, 35, was waiting for another shopper to leave a parking space when Ronnie Sharp, 61, began sounding his horn behind Jackson’s vehicle, the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office said.

Sheriff Brian Hieatt said Jackson got out of his vehicle and confronted Sharp, punching him, and Sharp responded by severely cutting Jackson on the arm with a knife and pulling out a rifle. The rifle was not loaded.

Have you noticed that this stuff almost never happens at a Target store?

The holidays promulgate a plethora of politeness.

Macomb County Sheriff Lt. John Michalke said a 56-year-old White Lake Township woman was handling the gun — being passed from person-to-person inside the home in the 58000 block of Deerfield — and pulled the trigger, causing it to discharge and strike her sister in the arm. The woman who fired the round apparently didn’t realize the gun was loaded, he said.

Police say the shooting occurred after the homeowner, a 48-year-old Washington Township man, retrieved the loaded Glock 21 handgun from a nightstand to show to his guests.

One more person who is just too damned stupid to own a firearm . . . .

Be polite to your elders.

An Ooltewah man who shot and killed what he thought was a middle-of-the-night prowler — actually a 72-year-old man with advanced Alzheimer’s disease — Wednesday in Walker County, Ga., hasn’t been charged but he might be later, authorities said.

(I trust that the gun nut is happy that he’s fulfilled his Wyatt Earp fantasy and demonstrated his capacity for courtesy.)

Afterthought:

The more stories of this sort that I see, the more I am convinced that many gun nuts have one trait in common.

They are frightened little men.

Bring up children politely.

The Fredonia Marshal’s Office says Donoho allegedly brought out a gun while inside a home with his child and five other children about 5 p.m. Saturday.

He’s accused of pointing the gun at the children and firing off a shot inside the home. There were no injuries.

After all, children learn best by example.

More news from the confluence of guns and stupid:

Two North Carolina parents are facing multiple charges after police said that one 3-year-old child accidentally shot another 3-year-old child near Asheboro this week.

According to WXII, deputies believe that 27-year-old William Monroe Simmons’ daughter was in a playroom unattended when the other 3-year-old shot her with a .22-caliber rifle that was left in the room.

. . . more evidence that an intelligence test should be required for owning firearms.

We had guns in the house when I grew up. They were always out of reach of children and unloaded, with the ammunition stored elsewhere, as anyone with enough smarts to own them would be sure to do.

A horse pulling an Amish buggy was killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Pennsylvania, police report.

Words fail me.

Be polite in Sunday service.

Churchgoers at Pinelake Church in Rankin County were preparing for service on Sunday morning when the 9mm handgun in Joseph Edgar Ray’s pocket discharged while he was sitting down, according to the Clarion-Ledger.

Flowood Police Department Lt. Ricky McMillian told the paper that the bullet lodged in the concrete floor and a woman was hit by the shell. WAPT also reported that “[f]ragments from the bullet shell grazed a woman nearby.” WJTV’s report said that the shell “barely broke skin.”

Jesus must be so proud.

Snuff out smoking, politely.

A Nashville bar owner claimed self defense over the weekend after fatally shooting country music singer Jerald Wayne Mills, 44, in connection with an argument over smoking.

More evidence that intelligence tests should be required for gun ownership.

Authorities said Texas state Rep. Drew Darby (R) tried to take a .38 caliber Ruger pistol with six rounds of ammunition through security at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, according to the Austin American-Statesman newspaper.

When the gun was spotted by security, Darby reportedly told an an officer it was his, that he had a concealed pistol license and had forgotten it was in his bag.

Really?

You’re too stupid to realize that you’re packing?

You aren’t qualified to touch a gun.

Good fences make good neighbors. Otherwise, otherwise.

La Politesse sur le Market-Frankford El.

About 3:15 p.m., a man was leaning over a bench rummaging through a bag at the 40th Street station’s eastbound platform when the gun discharged into the bench, said Police Lt. John Stanford.

A woman sitting on a nearby bench suffered a graze wound to her right cheek and a bruise on an arm from an impact projectile, said SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams.

The projectile “hits the metal bench, bounces off [a] wall, through the trash can, and strikes her,” Stanford said.

Of course, had the lady been packin’, she could have offed the sonuvabitch right then and there. She would have just been standing her ground.

That is civilized society, NRA style.

Practice random acts of politeness.

Consistency: Polite in public, polite at home.

The man suspected of shooting a woman to death outside a Midtown office building was found dead Wednesday afternoon inside his Clayton County home.

Douglas Hope, 43, appeared to have committed suicide, but an autopsy will be performed, Sgt. Greg Lyon with Atlanta police said. Atlanta police went to Hope’s home to execute a search warrant, but instead found him dead around 2 p.m., Lyon said.

About those intelligence tests . . . .

Be polite at the big box store.

Police said an Iowa man was arrested after his concealed weapon accidentally fired while he was shopping at Wal-Mart.

Officers said Christopher William Strube, of Centerville, was shopping Sunday afternoon when the .45-caliber handgun fired from his pants pocket.

If registration is not required to pack heat, how about at least an intelligence test?

Oh, wait. Sales. Never mind.

Show your friendship, politely.

If everyone were packing, we would be awash in courtesy.