Why Banning Books Should Be Banned

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Should banning books be allowed, or is banning books doing more harm than good. Banning books takes away good learning opportunities for kids. Banning books also takes away from people being able to learn things and miss out on good books. No one person or group should be able to ban a book because it's scary or has a little bit of bad language in the book. Why banning books is a bad idea. Kids should be able to freely read whatever books they want because they can learn life lessons from books that are banned. Banning books takes away some very good books for kids to learn from and could be taking away from something they like to do. Kids can learn things about religion and other things from the past and you can help them understand what

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