"Shooting Dad" Dialogue

What is the significance to the title?

This story written by Sarah Vowell is about a young girl who grew up in a divided house. You could see the Democratic sign in one window and the Republican sign in the other window. The title to this story has a few different meanings that I found throughout reading it.
The first one is that her dad is a gunsmith who made and only cared about guns. He spent most of his time in the garage making rifle barrels and you could see he passion for guns throughout the house. For example you could see the mounted antlers on the wall from the deer he shot and the metal shavings were all over waiting for an accident to happen by someone else in the house. He would make blue prints of all his inventions he was trying to create and it was scattered everywhere. At first he only had his daughter Amy involved and loving guns but you notice a huge change in Sarah towards the end of the story.
The second thing is that his biggest “tool of death” was the nineteenth century cannon he was making. He was dedicated to this tool because he made it from scratch and it took him two years. It was a small replica of the cannon called the Big Horn Gun in front of Bozeman’s Pioneer Museum. There was history behind the original cannon and her dad takes it to heart and wants to carry on the importance. The story also involves Sarah’s great-great-grandfather John Vowell who fought under pro-slavery. The cannon is a map of all his obsessions-firearms, certainly, but also American history and family history, subjects he’s never bothered separating from each other.
The last thing has to do what happens after her father dies and what to do with the ashes. He wants his wife and two daughters to carry the cannon up to the top of the Gravellies and looking off at Sphinx Mountain and put him into brown paper bags. His remark is, “I can take me last hunting trip on opening day.” They will plunge the remains into the cannon, light the fuse and not cover their ears and watch their father shot out of the cannon into the earth.
The overall importance about the title has to do with a man who loves guns and chooses that as his profession. There were different meanings to the title and one important thing is his love for family. He wanted to get his daughters involved with what he loved but at first only got one of them involved. Sarah was into art but deep down her and her father were exactly the same and both shared a passion for the same thing ART.