The Need To Read
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Picture This: What's More Dangerous?
Here's my take: if you're OK with your state/county/district/town banning books, than you shouldn't get all huffy about gun restriction in the least. And if you're best comeback is, "Books aren't guaranteed in the Constitution!" then you're completely missing the point. A world where we can shoot anyone with anything but can't read Catcher in the Rye is a twisted world.
Read a Book.
If you're reading this, thanks. But all the same, you may want to flip through a book (if you haven't recently). According to this story Only 30 percent of 13-year-olds read almost every day. The number of 17-year-olds who never read for pleasure increased from 9 percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004. Almost half of Americans between ages 18 and 24 never read books for pleasure. The average person between ages 15 and 24 spends 2 to 2 1/2 hours a day watching TV and 7 minutes reading. I have to admit I've been slacking myself. There was a point where I'd be reading a novel, two short stories and a rack of comic books in the same week. Now it's like I only read when I'm in the gym. I guess I know what I'll ask for Christmas.