The Boy Who Stopped The Guns
A real short
story.
He never
spoke a word. From the day he was born, he never spoke one single word. He was
tested and proved not to be deaf. He simply did not speak. Laughter was the
only sounds he would utter. He laughed at almost every opportunity. He laughed
when he heard birds singing, when the wind rustled among the trees, whenever he
saw a butterfly he would double over with the purest laughter until tears
flowed from his beautiful brown eyes.
His parents
defended him with all their might when friends and relatives suggested somehow
something was wrong with him. They would point out that he had an extremely
high IQ. His scores were perfect on all the tests given him by teachers, psychiatrists, child behavior experts and did all the work given him in school flawlessly. He would communicate everything
by writing, and started doing this at the age of eighteen months.
He was tall
for his age, standing at five feet seven inches and he was only six years old. His
curly black hair was allowed to grow and mopped his face making his clear brown skin
glow in response. His face was pleasant and his smile was endearing. He was a
joy to be around although he did not speak words.
One day his
beautiful child wrote a note to his father. It read, "I want to go where people
shoot guns."
"Why?" his father asked.
“I must stop
the guns, it is my duty.”
“How will you
stop the guns?’
“I do not
know but when I get to the place where people shoot guns they will stop.”
His father, who
had grown to trust that his wonder child knew what he was doing, took him
to a very large gun range. People were everywhere inside the gun range and many
of them was shooting at targets floating through the space in the stalls. As soon
as the pair entered the room, before anyone could say anything, all the guns
stopped firing. Panic ensued as the son and his father walked out of the
building. No gun were ever fired in that range to this day. They made several
more stops and everywhere they went, the guns refused to be fired.
His father
decided that they needed to go where the truly big guns were. So they went to war zones, military bases, police
stations, missile silos and stopped all the guns from firing. After a short
while there no guns on earth that would fire.
What if this
happened?
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