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“your parents. But nobody shot anyone. “We don’t have a gun problem; we have a sin problem. We have a problem in our society, and we can’t solve it if we are wasting time talking about guns. We’re being duped!” She turned to her notes again, “If a teenager shoots up a school, we have a nationwide conversation about guns, not our youth. If a boy commits suicide with a gun, we talk about guns, not suicide. If a schizophrenic shoots a Congresswoman, we talk about guns, not mental illness. If terrorists shoot up a Christmas party, we talk about guns, not terrorism. “We’re being played by people who care more about scoring political points than trying to solve the problem. If they honestly cared about solving the problem, they’d start where all clear-headed problem-solvers start: trying to discover what’s causing it.” Keisha put her notes down and walked over to the whiteboard.”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting

“Yes, you have. Long hair, full beard, smells like cigarettes, always wearing a trench coat, carries a large art pad, always drawing.”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph... is for good men to be distracted.”
― B.K. Dell, Mead Mountain: A Matthew 17:20 Story

“We wouldn’t listen if the people of France told us how we could write our laws. We wouldn’t listen if the people of Greece did. Because they are outsiders. But yet we listen to a backward, racist, sexist, slave-owning group of white men from over two hundred years ago.”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting

“Reaching out a hand in friendship had changed the whole world. Six students’ lives were saved.”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting

“conversation we desperately need to have. But we can’t because the gun debate has been placed as an obstacle in our way.” She read from her notes, “We have more guns in our society than we did twenty-five years ago, and all the while, the rate of gun-related crime has gone down. Clearly access to guns is not the problem. “American cities with the highest homicide rates very often have the strictest gun laws. Clearly access to guns is not the problem. “Blacks are seven times more likely to commit murder than whites, according to Bureau of Justice statistics. Do they have seven times more access to guns? No. Clearly access to guns is not the problem. “In this Southern town, at this very school, just one generation ago, you could have seen gun racks in the backs of trucks. And kids kept guns in them, and they drove them to school. That’s a real thing;”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting

“Because you can’t reason people out of that which they weren’t reasoned into. Most of the time, people just believe what they are comfortable believing. They arrive at the conclusion first, then look only for specific arguments that support it, and no further.”
― B.K. Dell, Mead Mountain: A Matthew 17:20 Story

“Levi’s face was one Keisha understood well. It was secondhand embarrassment. It’s when you’re appalled by your friend’s behavior, because someone has to be, and your friend doesn’t seem to be.”
― B.K. Dell, How to Stop a School Shooting