- Reverend Eric Camden: I-I just have to ask you, has Johnny ever been in trouble?
- Mr. Morton: I think this conversations gone far enough.
- Reverend Eric Camden: Do you own a gun?
- [Mr. Morton sighs]
- Reverend Eric Camden: Oh, I thought so.
- Mr. Morton: Did you know that guns don't kill people, people kill people!
- Reverend Eric Camden: People with guns kill people! No, is it too much ask that this man to admit that his son has problem, and take some action!
- Simon Camden: This is all my fault. I shouldn't have said anything.
- Lucy Camden Kinkirk: It's not your fault. It's not your fault at all. If you hadn't said anything, something worse could have happened. He could have shown up at school with that gun! Johnny's a kid with a bad temper. A bad temper and a gun. That's a really bad combination.
- Lucy Camden Kinkirk: [after Eric is shot] I just wish somebody would have told me what was going on.
- Simon Camden: Mom and Dad were hoping they wouldn't have to scare the rest of the family. Besides, what would you have done anyway?
- Ruthie Camden: Well, for one thing, I wouldn't have been running around yelling "Ba-Boom!"
- Reverend Eric Camden: [to Ruthie] Let me try to explain to you why your mom and I are so upset by this whole "Ba-Boom!" thing.
- Ruthie Camden: After that, then can I get the video game?
- Reverend Eric Camden: Listen when you first see someone shot or blown up on TV, it has to be at least a little scary. But then if you keep watching it day after day, week after week, year after year, it starts to grow less scary, less a big deal, and even gets to seem like... nothing. But it is something. It's the biggest something. It's someone taking someone else's life.
- Simon Camden: Excuse me.
- Johnny Morton: Oh, hey, little buddy. Am I in your way?
- Simon Camden: It's not buddy. It's Simon Camden. You're Johnny, I presume?
- Johnny Morton: So you've heard of me. That's good. Have you also heard that this is my girlfriend Deena?
- Simon Camden: I believe that's was your girlfriend. Deena was your girlfriend. She's my girlfriend now.
- Johnny Morton: Yeah, we'll see about that, buddy.
- Mr. Morton: I have a license for that gun!
- Reverend Eric Camden: I don't care if you have a license for that gun. License or no license, you seem to be in complete denial that something could go terribly wrong here.
- Mr. Morton: I know my son, okay? I know he would never shoot anyone!
- Sgt. Michaels: Just the same, until this situation is resolved, you might want to take the gun out of your house.
- Reverend Eric Camden: That gun is for our protection
- Sgt. Michaels: Did you know that people who own guns are 33 times more likely to kill themselves, a family member or an acquaintance than to be killed by an armed intruder?
- Sgt. Michaels: [to Eric] I talked to the folks in juvenile. Johnny has a record. And just as you thought the family has a gun, a registered .38 special.
- Mr. Morton: I was wrong. And I just wanted to apologize for what happened, and not listening to you when you told me my son was in trouble. If I had, this wouldn't have happened. I just thank God he didn't kill anybody.
- Reverend Eric Camden: Amen.
- Johnny Morton: Listen, Mighty Mouse, stay out of this, or I'm going to take you out of it!
- Simon Camden: Take me out of it?
- Johnny Morton: [makes a gun with his fingers] Get it?
- Simon Camden: You're gonna shoot me?
- Johnny Morton: Yeah, maybe. All of a sudden you'll turn around and see a .38 Special pointed right at you.
- Johnny Morton: [chuckles]
- Johnny Morton: Yeah, I just might do that. You'll have to look over your shoulder everywhere you go.
- Vice Principal Blackstone: I have to follow procedure. I have to call in the parents, have a meeting with them, send the kid to a counselor. They have to recommend that he see a therapist or I have to risk losing my 10 year retirement, and that may not sound much, but I have a family too.
- Reverend Eric Camden: Okay, well what about tomorrow? What happens if he comes to school with a gun tomorrow?
- Vice Principal Blackstone: I agree that Simon and Deena should stay home from school until I get some answers.
- Reverend Eric Camden: Well, thanks for your help.
- Annie Jackson-Camden: [in response to Ruthie playing a game where people step on land mines] Ruthie, did you know that there are real people who step on real land mines? They lose arms and legs. And some even die.
- Ruthie Camden: Yeah, but this isn't real life. It's just a game. A video game.
- Mary Camden: [to George] I'm not kidding, you're hurting me, let go!
- George: Only if you say please.
- Mary Camden: [elbows him and knocks him to the ground] I don't have to say please! I don't know what kind of girls you're used to going out with, but I don't find physical violence appropriate for a date!
- George: And yet, you're hurting my hand.
- Mary Camden: [lets go George's hand] You have a problem. Deal with it.
- Reverend Eric Camden: [to Simon] Are you in some kind of trouble?
- Simon Camden: I'm not sure about that either. See, the thing is, is that he's probably trying to scare me. But Deena's boyfriend said that he was going to shoot me.
- Johnny Morton: [Turning to his dad after learning his sentence] Daddy no! Please don't let them take me. Daddy, please! Don't let them take me! No! Daddy! Don't let them take me!