Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd: Gunless

Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd: Gunless

Elmer Fudd Doesn't Use Guns in the 'Looney Tunes' Reboot and Twitter Isn't Impressed: He carries a scythe instead>>>By Allie Gregory Jun 07, 2020 

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Classic Warner Bros. cartoon Looney Tunes recently got rebooted at HBO Max, which means the return of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. The nostalgia-heavy series is operating much like it used to, but with one small difference: the latter antagonists have to operate their devious plans without the use of firearms.

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The rebooted series, titled Looney Tunes Cartoons, has all its usual violence and weapons including dynamite, booby traps and anvils — but apparently, executive producer Peter Browngardt has drawn the line at cartoon gun violence, according to a new interview with the New York Times. "We're not doing guns," Browngardt told the publication. "But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in."

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While a small group of people are happy to see the guns removed from the cartoon, others are outraged at the violation of Fudd and Sam's second amendment rights. The middle-ground protestors, meanwhile, are accusing HBO and Warner of hypocrisy at the removal of firearms when so many other weapons remain. Nearly everyone is confused with the decision, to say the least.

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Here kiddies, no more firearms but here is a scythe and plenty of dynamite.

Looney Tunes

I reason parents and legal guardians, if it is not inherently, innately obvious, to these minors, should teach these children that there is a difference between fictionalized violence and violence in the real world of non-fiction.

Personally, I find Fudd with the scythe more off-putting than any firearm or explosive from my childhood viewing of Looney Tunes, but that is just me. It seems more fictionally, potentially, bloody. If one of the characters is blown up with a firearm or dynamite they quickly recover. But what is the recovery from a scythe beheading? Just place that head back on, like a hat, perhaps?

I suppose just another quick recovery would occur from an injury from a bladed weapon.

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Justice, Peace, Law and Order

While embracing the New Testament and biblical teachings, and through philosophical considerations, I support the maintenance of law and order from governments (Romans 13, 1 Peter 2) as being sanctioned by God, even in this fallen realm (Genesis 1-3, Romans 1-3). 

This present realm and the world system are corrupted in human sin and are as well fueled by demonic powers of darkness (Ephesians 6). Law and order, at best, somewhat tainted in administration.

I support reasonable, relevant changes, for greater fairness, within Western systems of justice. I absolutely, do not support the overall weakening of law and order. Almost universally, while allowing for God's sovereignty to provide justice and peace in rare exceptions without law and order, justice and peace will not exist without the maintenance of law and order.