User blog comment:MyOpinion:/Redwall's future/@comment-1421927-20100516150100

Greensap milk does exist; if you have a Jasmine plant (I believe it's Jasmine, I might be wrong) there is actually a little bit of white stuff that is drinkable that will come out if you cut a branch. I learned that in kindergarten because a friend did it.

I didn't know the gun powder ingredients (Other than sulfur) because currently I am in Life Science, and my teacher doesn't really ever talk about anything other than cells or evolution. Sorry.

I believe it could be plausible for vermin to create a better weapon than the Redwallers; it also seems that generally that is the scenario in fan fiction, because the viewers would absolutely revolt if they saw the itsy bitsy wittle cutie mice of Redwall holding guns and canons.

This brings up another point: if people on this wiki (Which, no offense to the administration, is a rather small sample of the Redwall readers, for off all the people who read Redwall that I know, I'm the only one on this wiki. So that's 1 out of 5 is on here), then imagine the millions of kids/adults who read Redwall seeing they have firearms! If authors on here get heat, imagine what BJ would get! He might be putting the mice on pause in their timeline for a reason.

It can relate to the whole reason BJ doesn't make the mice Catholic or Buddhist or Atheist or Muslims or Jews or Christians or Hindu, etc. etc. etc.. If he did make them something, you'd get some people not want to read them anymore because they don't agree with the religion or something like that. For example, I once read the book series Warriors, but I stopped because of weird religious stuff going on with the cats that bugged me and my dad. My dad now reads Redwall, too, and both of us like the non-religious stuff. You might say that having seers is religious, but it seems that a lot of the seers in the series are fakes. And when they're real ones, it's just sort of creepy.

BJ not want to put guns in the books because you'd have some parents going, "Oh, I don't want my seven year old reading books about mice killing weasels with pistols! It'll make them violent!" (Like reading books about mice killing weasels with swords won't make your child any more violent than having them replace the swords with pistols.), so they'd stop their kids reading them. You'd have some people who are against the 2nd Amendment here in the States, or who are just ant-gun ownership, and so they might stop reading because the book bugs them.

Of course, out of the readers of these books, you'd have some people who didn't care, some people who liked it, and some people who LOVE it even more. But, a downfall in readership would really hurt BJ.

What you said earlier and Redwall being based off the British Isles, though, has some limitations. Although, yes, people there have wat could be considered Cockney or Scottish or English accents, there isn't a king, a pope (Maybe if you said Father Abbot, but, he doesn't have a complete tyrannical reign. Lately in Redwall, it's been sort of an oligarchy or representative democracy, with the whole council of elders thing.), and Redwall, although it is an Abbey, technically it isn't a monastery; they are not teaching Catholic/anything there; really, all their doctrine is, "Be nice to people. If you are weird and mean, we'll kick you out." There's been no crusades (Their wars are based on 'fate' or to defend themselves, never to jam each other's beliefs down the other's throat), no exploration, (Has anybody in Redwall ever decided to check out what's off the map? No.), no Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Protestant Movement, Magna Carta, no anything. Which brings up the point that, because it is fiction, BJ could have Redwall sit in the Middle Ages with plague and bad vermin for as long as he wants to, for, he has a creative license to mush up our history, and take bits of it to Redwall, and leave bits here.