The Anarchist Cookbook includes step by step instructions on how to build bombs, how to make drugs, and how to operate firearms. The first part of this text is the table of contents, and they definitely grabbed my eye the second I started reading. They include all different types of drugs, firearms, weapons, and many other very violent and dangerous things. It gave me an idea of what I was about to get into as I continued to read. One thing that I also found very interesting in the beginning of the book was when he states “This book is for the people of the United States of America. It is not written for the members of fringe political groups, such as The Weathermen, or the Minutemen. Those radical groups don’t need this book. They already know everything that’s in here. If the real people of America, the silent majority, are going to survive, they must educate themselves. That is the purpose of this book.” I found this interesting because he claims that they need this text in order to survive, but in reality this text was a large reason for many mass shootings that took the lives of many innocent people.
For that very reason, I believe it is a very good thing that this book was banned. It has caused a lot of damage, sadness, and fear in our country. It should have never been written, or published in the first place. If it hadn’t been brought to the United States and shown to the people, many lives would not have been taken. It makes me wonder if this was a large reason that mass shootings and school shootings started and occurred more frequently as time moved on.