51.   Even gun violence is not a significant school problem, despite some highly publicized, horrifying instances.

52.   Even though other cities have shot ahead of Philadelphia in filing lawsuits against the gun industry, Rendell said the city is still a leader on curbing gun violence.

53.   For added perspective, the institute reports the number of children killed by gun violence in schools is about half the number of Americans killed by lightning every year.

54.   Fingerhut lost a friend to gun violence last week.

55.   For Saperstein, ending gun violence by controlling weapons is a theological imperative for Jews and other people of faith.

56.   From the first, Republicans tried to cast gun violence in schools as primarily a cultural issue.

57.   Gun control proponents argue that the numbers are still staggering and that gun violence will only drop significantly when the number of firearms is reduced.

58.   Gun rights supporters, primarily Republicans, insist that the best approach to gun violence is better enforcement of existing gun laws.

59.   Gun violence is one of the great American pastimes.

60.   Gun-control advocates attack gun owners, but they should join them to direct their efforts at the mutual goal of stopping gun violence, he says.