Applause

Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in Arkansas, 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 Johnny, with a proud Arkansas drawl, pierced the quiet and said,
'Well, dumb-ass, stop clapping!'