Should the use of cannons in the bullring be allowed…..?
It is fitting that this question should appear next to an advertisement featuring a cannon inspector. This noble and time tested vocation first was developed during those days in the middle ages when mankind was first making wooden cannons out of huge logs. These cannon had the disturbing propensity to explode into a mass of splinters, killing everyone within fifty feet of their breech. It is unclear if any cannon inspectors were ever killed or injured in such a breech failure, but certainly, checking the interior by looking down the barrel had comedic consequences when the idiots lighted the fuse before they inspected the barrel… Now bulls might have some problem lighting the fuse on the cannon, and it is unlikely that the bull could master the calculation of the trajectory of the cannon ball under the stress of the bullfight, so I do not think this would offer the bull any significant advantage. On the other hand, if the bullfighter had to use a cannon, rather than the cape and his
