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We Cannot Spare Another Child

The simple and devastating truth should be self-evident. No second grader or high school junior should lose their life to a madman with a semi-automatic rifle.

The tsunami of pain and loss and shock eventually swamp everyone, starting with extended family and touching all with the unconscionable violence.

Beyond the grief and fear and loss there's another devastation.

What do all these people have in common? They were once children, who lived to grow up and change the world.

* Albert Einstein (1879-1955 AD)
* Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727 AD)
* Marie Curie (1867-1934 AD)
* Archimedes (287-212 BC)
* Nikola Tesla (1856-1943 AD)
* Charles Darwin (1809-1882 AD)
* Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958 AD)
* Ada Lovelace (1815-1852 AD)
* Louis Pasteur (1822-1895 AD)
* CV Raman (1888-1970 AD)

There are dozens of similar lists that could be compiled.

We don't know what those senselessly, pointlessly, heinously dead children might have grown up to accomplish.
SW-User
exactly, i always love your posts, and this one is by far my favourite
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
This carnage will continue. Politicians are complicit.
@Lostpoet 1. "Gandi" gets an h. Gandhi.

2. That's one person.
Lostpoet · M
@Mamapolo2016 Tru, I can't think of anyone
@Lostpoet When you consider a brilliant, genius child trying to live with Neanderthals, you can imagine the frustration and anger.
Lostpoet · M
Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin are known to have had anger problems as children.
@Lostpoet Name five people who never did.
Yes. Thank you for your very heartfelt post.
Lostpoet · M
@Mamapolo2016 Einstein wasn't a brilliant child though he was actually a very slow developing child. I read, Einstein and the Universe a long time ago.
@Lostpoet Possibly because fhey were teaching "Joe has one apple and Mary has three apples. How many apples do Joe and Mary together have?" and he's thinking E=MC2
Lostpoet · M
@Mamapolo2016 Einstein came up with the equation but he used different letters than E=mc².

Einstein became brilliant because he came from a well to do Jewish family. His father owned an electrical company. I'm not taking any credit away from Einstein he was a genius and a very astute student. But he wasn't a savant nor did he posses any skills that showed remarkably more advanced than the students around him. He became famous because he loved finding out things and he wanted to be recognized. Him taking a job as a patient clerk wasn't seen a wasted talent until he wrote those four miracle papers and even those took a decade to be polished and proven right. He never one the Pulitzer until late in life and it was for a small paper he wrote about the effects of something like why small grains of pollen something giggle around in glass. (Or sumptin like that)
Even the autopsy of his brain 🧠 never showed anything of great significance other than he had more grey matter than average. Einstein's influence on science was of unimaginable importance but he wasn't an unimaginable important person.
Lostpoet · M
@Mamapolo2016 My comments are extremely off topic to your original and I don't know why I keep doing that. Sorry.
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
Gave too many away?
@TheRascallyOne No. They're dead.
Ramen of noodle fame?
@Alfred22 No, an Indian Nobel Prize winner.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS (/ˈrɑːmən/;[1] 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering.[2] Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the deflected light changes its wavelength and frequency. This phenomenon, a hitherto unknown type of scattering of light, which they called "modified scattering" was subsequently termed the Raman effect or Raman scattering. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.[3]

 
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