At at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas,
Obama asked the youthful audience for total quiet for a moment.

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 some sort of gun violence."

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