“The reason why I wrote Fahrenheit is that I am a library person and I am in danger of someday writing something that people might not like and they might burn. So it was only natural that I sat down and wrote Fahrenheit 451.”
Author Ray Bradbury
NYC councilman Eric Bottcher, in December of 2022, from this ABC News article.
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
That those who know what’s best for us –
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge,
Quick to anger
Slow to understandIgnorance and prejudice
Rush “Witch Hunt” from their 1981 album Moving Pictures
And fear walk hand in hand
It’s getting harder and harder to read a book… and easier and easier to get a gun. Which would you rather have in your kid’s hands?
True that D..It’s a sad state of affairs..Maybe someone needs to post a TikTok challenge of turning in your gun to get some traction on this problem..