Paws Off My Cannon

The right to keep and bear arms is a key foundation of American culture. It's the Second Amendment, protecting that right, right after the protection of freedom of speech, the press and assembly. The right to bear arms apparently is important enough to write a children's book about it; Paws Of My Cannon teaches kids about the importance of the right to defend oneself with a firearm...

My first reaction after learning about this children's book was "that's sick!" It's hard for someone like me, who grew up in a country where almost no one owns a gun, let alone bears one, to understand why anyone would like to live in a country where anyone could have a murder weapon. That's right: a murder weapon. Defenders of the right to bear arms will say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." But that's a dumb argument; "knives don't kill people either." The difference is that guns are made for killing, and for killing alone. It has no other use. And now Dana Loesch, a former NRA spokesperson, has written a children's book about the importance of keeping and bearing murder weapons. That's sick.

Here's the synopsis from the publisher's website:

"This story follows Bongo, a daring and hungry gorilla, who loves eating food, especially mushroom-shaped cupcakes. But one day, a villainous hyena shoots a coconut at Bongo and his friend Bonnie. Bonnie is so upset at this misuse of coconut cannons that she suggests the village ban all coconut cannons. Bongo thinks that the hyenas are the problem, not the coconut cannons.

Their debate splits Mushroom Village, and when the hyenas come back, their views are put to the test. Will Bongo and Bonnie finally see eye-to-eye or will one side prevail?"
_{source: Brave Books}

Boy oh boy, such garbage to teach children. And so utterly hypocritical after all the complaints from the right about the liberals and leftists indoctrinating children with Sesame Street's Big Bird, Potato Head, Dr. Suess and all those evil schools trying to teach kids some ACTUAL history including all the good and all the bad. This story ends with Bongo and the coconut cannons saving the village from another attack by those evil hyenas, of course. And don't think that most children aren't smart enough to see that the coconut cannons are a metaphor for guns; I can see it already, children playing with daddy's gun, yelling "hands off my coconut cannon!" Sick.

This book is pure partisan propaganda. For children! And it's dangerous. I've looked it up, and in 2020 more than 130 people died from accidental shootings by children. Children playing with guns laying around the house and accidentally shooting themselves, a friend or family member. All this talk about needing guns for a safer environment should be silenced immediately by that statistic alone. The safest home for a child is a home without guns. I know; I grew up in one, and in a country where all kids grew up in such a gun-free home. The same party that whines about killing children that aren't children, you know, the "pro-life" party, loves to protect the unborn, but has no regard for the actual living and breathing children. I've also looked up the number of gunfire deaths in my country: 5. That's around 100 if we extrapolate to America's population of 330 million people. And you know how many are by kids? Zero.

But hey, after so many shootings, mass shootings, child shootings and Rittenhouse, Americans are having a lively debate about the right to bear arms and the right to patrol protests or protect properties. That's sick. I hope that if you have kids, that you read them stories about how we all get along together and leave the self defense propaganda for when they're a bit older at least.

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