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So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?
 
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Flybynite said:


So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?
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Amerika ist wunderbar
We're all living in Amerika
Amerika, Amerika....
 
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Appleyard said:
Kind of! My girlfriend lived there for more than a year and I also lived in Utrecht for a year.

Actually living in the Netherlands again now, albeit not Amsterdam.
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Are there any sports-related spots it would be worth to see? I will have quite a few hours to spare on Friday, then Monday in late August.
 
Flybynite said:


So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?
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Gotta keep banning books tho. Banning the Diary of Anne Frank. This country is going backwards.
 
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Flybynite said:


So banks got armed guards and have limited number of entrances. How exactly is that suggestion to 'fortify' schools gonna work if all it takes is one guy with a 'long rifle' to storm a location with armed guard(s) and manage to kill at least 5 people?
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Just makes no sense. Sorry you guys have to live in that kind of situation
 
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Lord Defect said:
It’s a public school. The book can be bought it cannot be provided by the school in the school library.
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Maybe you looked more thoroughly into it than I did... but I looked for a copy of the graphic novel adaption that was in question. I looked through the images and did not find anything of a 'graphic sexual' nature. There was one illustration of a park with statues and some were 'nude', but not done in an exaggerated or sexual nude way. Anyone prior to the last decade and having gone to a museum on a class trip would have seen things much more graphic and explicit.

In terms of the 'text' and diary entries. Those were Anne Frank's own words. Her Father was the lone survivor and after the diary was recovered he published it, but some of those things he himself censored as to protect her 'privacy'... but later in life he said he regretted that and thought it was important to show who she was.

We're talking about a young teenage girl who was in a situation I doubt any of us can even begin to comprehend, but the things she thought about and wondered about were things many other teenagers do. I think showing that is important. I think having others in her age group read and see that and realize they're not 'strange', they're not 'immoral', it's ok. I think that's important.

The group that fought to get the book removed also lied about their reasons. They claimed the graphic novel was fabricating Anne Frank's actual diary, when in fact as I said the original published diary itself was edited and had these things removed. The actual full version of her diary (which is now published and sold) has these passages and this graphic novel presented much word for word while also having a narrative relayed in a comic format.

I find it extremely insulting to think something written by a young teenage girl in the 1940s is somehow 'inappropriate' for teens of the same age today.
 
American Theocracy here we come with the radical Supreme Court and other extreme judges out there as the American mullahs. Just missing an Ayatollah and morality police.
 
Flybynite said:
Maybe you looked more thoroughly into it than I did... but I looked for a copy of the graphic novel adaption that was in question. I looked through the images and did not find anything of a 'graphic sexual' nature. There was one illustration of a park with statues and some were 'nude', but not done in an exaggerated or sexual nude way. Anyone prior to the last decade and having gone to a museum on a class trip would have seen things much more graphic and explicit.

In terms of the 'text' and diary entries. Those were Anne Frank's own words. Her Father was the lone survivor and after the diary was recovered he published it, but some of those things he himself censored as to protect her 'privacy'... but later in life he said he regretted that and thought it was important to show who she was.

We're talking about a young teenage girl who was in a situation I doubt any of us can even begin to comprehend, but the things she thought about and wondered about were things many other teenagers do. I think showing that is important. I think having others in her age group read and see that and realize they're not 'strange', they're not 'immoral', it's ok. I think that's important.

The group that fought to get the book removed also lied about their reasons. They claimed the graphic novel was fabricating Anne Frank's actual diary, when in fact as I said the original published diary itself was edited and had these things removed. The actual full version of her diary (which is now published and sold) has these passages and this graphic novel presented much word for word while also having a narrative relayed in a comic format.

I find it extremely insulting to think something written by a young teenage girl in the 1940s is somehow 'inappropriate' for teens of the same age today.
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I didn’t see the images but I’ve read a snippet of what she wrote. IMO it should not be in a school library by someone under the age where they receive sex education.
 
Appleyard said:
Kind of! My girlfriend lived there for more than a year and I also lived in Utrecht for a year.

Actually living in the Netherlands again now, albeit not Amsterdam.
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Ah, ok clear. I was wondering whether you know any sports-related spots in Amsterdam worthy a visit.
 
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