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DaneL1 year, 3 months ago

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So you would have no problem with kids reading "The Anarchist cookbook" or books detailing how to make bombs or converting semi-automatic weapons to fully automatic?

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    DaneL1 year, 3 months ago
    
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    "Less so than I have problems with kid's gaining direct and immediate access to mom or dad's handgun. "
    What does that statement have to do with banning books? Try to stay on the subject.
    
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      mecormany1 year, 3 months ago
      
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      He is on the subject or did you forget what you wrote 5 hours after you wrote it? You write as though it's perfectly okay to have a semi-automatic weapon lying around the house as long as the kids can't get their hands on a book about converting it to a fully automatic weapon. The odds of the child getting their hands on a gun in the house, whatever kind it is, is greater than finding a book on how to mod it. I worked in a library and you need to practically turn over ever bit of ID on your person to look at The Anarchist cookbook, I never saw a book on modding any type of weapon and we were one of the biggest libraries in Illinois. These books were kept in a locked room and not put on the shelves.
      
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        DaneL1 year, 3 months ago
        
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        "You write as though it's perfectly okay to have a semi-automatic weapon lying around the house as long as the kids can't get their hands on a book about converting it to a fully automatic weapon."
        How do you make the jump from getting a book at the library to leaving semi-autos lying around the house? The question was the ability for a child to get his/her hands on books that might not be good reading material.
        
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  miklkit1 year, 3 months ago
  
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  It's the tail wagging the dog. There are committees that go through all the books out there and decide in a bipartisan way what books are best suited for different situations. The local librarians then use those guidelines in selecting their books. They also put local conditions into the mix. I have gone to the library of a small town of 5,000 and read repair manuals for old trucks.
  
  Then you have someone with no experience in this field strutting in and basically saying "It's my way or the highway". And this person is a known extremist fundie.
  
  I applaud that librarian and the townspeople who stood with her.
  
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    DaneL1 year, 3 months ago
    
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    "It's the tail wagging the dog. There are committees that go through all the books out there and decide in a bipartisan way what books are best suited for different situations."
    This is a form of censorship, someone else deciding what should be read and what shouldn't. She just asked the librarian if she would have a problem removing a book that was deemed outside the guide lines.
    
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  bruhaha1 year, 3 months ago
  
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  Whatever. No library is going to carry those books in the first place so your "point" is moot.
  
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