It is a matter of personal likes. M/L is not everyones cup of tea.
Its a love it or hate it thing, a bit like marmite (thats gone right over Jim's head).
But as you like your cannons Jim I'm sure you would like their little brother.
A boom rather than a bang, smoke instead of none, a big grin instead of a smug "I hit the paper".
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” :- Prince Philip said after Dunblane