At a recent rural elementary school assembly in Texas, Barack
Obama asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he
started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding
the audience in total silence.

Then he said into the microphone, ‘Children, every time I clap my
hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.’

Then, little Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet
and said: ”Well, dumb-ass, stop clapping!’