Libraries decide which books to carry, and which books to pass on. School libraries do the same. That doesn’t mean that the book is banned. If a person wants a book that the library doesn’t carry, all they have to do is go buy it. I am a voracious reader, and even I don’t think that we need public libraries any longer. The Internet has effectively replaced them. School libraries need only carry books that directly reflect what is being taught, and a small fiction section that contains books appropriate for the age group that will be checking them out. That means no sexual content. None.
You are free to read and write whatever books you wish- but the taxpayer isn’t obligated to pay for them or to provide them.
If you, as a parent, want your child to read a book of instructions on how to suck dicks, all you have to do is buy it and give it to your child. Just because a book isn’t carried in the school library doesn’t mean that the book is banned. The left has done this with Bibles for my entire life- try to find a copy of a Bible in a school library. That doesn’t mean that the Bible is banned.
As far as I know, there is only one book that is banned in the United States– Cody Wilson’s “The Liberator Code Book: An Exercise in Freedom of Speech.” That book is banned for sale. Not available anywhere.
So why is a book on how to build your own guns banned, but books telling children how to suck dicks aren’t? I will leave that discussion to my readers.
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D · August 17, 2024 at 9:22 am
> As far as I know, there is only one book that is banned in the United States– Cody Wilson’s “The Liberator Code Book: An Exercise in Freedom of Speech.” That book is banned for sale. Not available anywhere.
Huh. I guess I better start building one of those hidden rooms like you see in “V for Vendetta”. I never realized the book was banned. I’ve got a copy sitting in a box somewhere.
Divemedic · August 17, 2024 at 9:43 am
Court order.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/23/3d-printed-gun-blueprint-was-uploaded-in-book-form-to-amazon-as-a-free-speech-exercise-amazon-removed-it/
D · August 18, 2024 at 9:29 am
Hmm…I did some casual searching this morning, and it seems like nearly everything dead-ends with a “temporary restraining order”. Wikipedia seems to imply the order was temporary and now it’s legal to sell, but places just won’t sell it (like Amazon), and that he gave up the book fight and just released everything as a downloadable file (and that was also challenged in court).
That lead me down the wikipedia rabbit hole to FFL licensing, and I saw the following interesting snippet:
“The business to be conducted under the license is not prohibited by State or local law in the place where the licensed premise is located including Local (City & County) Zoning Ordinances and not prohibited by the Home Owners Association (HOA) if any.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Firearms_License)
Holy crap. I have a friend who lives in Florida and he said “pretty much every property is covered by an HOA in Florida”. I know you’ve talked about HOAs before, but I have no idea what the number is. 50% of properties? 90%?
Seems like it could be an effective way to ban the sales of guns in Florida–just get all the HOAs to ban doing any kind of business on an HOA-covered property.
I’m sure there would be legal challenges if FFLs were targeted specifically, but maybe less so if it was just a blanket ban on all businesses.
But then again, there are a lot of guns in Florida…and I would imagine HOAs don’t cover business parks, malls, and shopping centers.
Out here in Washington (especially out in the sticks) there are a lot of FFLs that are run out of people’s houses.
I’m sure you have better info that my friend’s random comments. Do a lot of HOAs have restrictions that would prevent someone from operating an FFL out of their home?
Divemedic · August 18, 2024 at 9:43 am
The latest numbers I have seen are that 87% of homes in Florida are covered by an HOA. Whether or not any particular HOA bans businesses, each HOA would have to have its CC&Rs checked to see what their particular rules are.
Chris Mallory · August 17, 2024 at 9:27 am
It might not be banned now, but for a long time, Irwin Schiff’s book, “The Federal Mafia: How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes.” was banned by order of the Federal Courts.
Divemedic · August 17, 2024 at 9:41 am
https://www.amazon.com/Federal-Mafia-Illegally-Unlawfully-Collects/dp/0930374088
Mr Garibaldi · August 17, 2024 at 11:51 am
Once upon a time I found out Grey 17 was missing and I went a looking for itm had to use some archaic 38 specials and a steak pipe to kill me a Zarg …
Anyway, it’s really stupid cause I’ve got three books on my shelf that cover building a Sten gun, a four winds shotgun, and a black powder muzzle loader, all published currently or have online copies circulating the interwebs. All I need is about a hundred bucks and a home Depot.
I worry more about what my children will be reading and learning in school. I’m gonna send them to private but even then, Ive got no idea what’s in their school library.
C · August 18, 2024 at 8:33 am
Didn’t know the book existed. Looks like I’m going to have to scour the web looking for a digital copy.
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