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Building In An Uproar.... Kids see this, teenagers see this — this is the wrong kind of cover on the Reader. To recap: The reasoning for the harsh criticism of the Reader cover is because of the violence? Had it not had the cheesy quote, the cover could very well have been one of our military personnel in animated form. Time Magazine recently had a cover with Nidal Hasan,(Suspected Fort Hood shooter) on the cover. If your children and teenagers can't differenciate between real life and fantasy, it may very well be a good idea to hide them somewhere where real life will never touch them. Violence is all around us, whether it be on the news, through movies, books, toy action figures, video games, etc. If you're a concerned parent, the idea shouldn't be "You're exposing my child to violence" but to use those tools to explain the differences between fantasy and reality, to show youth what extreme violence can do to people and better, more helpful ways at dealing with it. Playing a video game is vastly different than looking down the sights of an AR-15 and squeezing the trigger at a moving, living, breathing person. There is never a need for violence, yet it pervails in our society. To turn a blind eye to violence and the fact that it is out there is to denigrate the victims of it.— December 29, 2009 11:51 a.m.