America, were you can have guns, have your own religion, and read. But if you look, we can only read selected books that are deemed 'appropriate' and 'clean.' If you look in our country's history, they have been banning/censoring books since the early nineteen hundreds. Books such as Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, 1984, and Mein Kumpf. But why? Books have been censored on religious, sexual, and political bonds. Take Operation Dark Heart; when it was first released, the American Government bought the first thousand copies and burnt them. But I ask why? Why ban books? Don't we have the freedom to write what we want? To choose what we want to read?