Picture Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden. Can you imagine either one of them ever needing a shotgun? Of course it seems unnecessary to protect oneself, when one's in paradise; so that's probably why neither of the first humans carried a weapon. But now consider that God employed a fire-sword when he evicted the man and his wife from his pleasure garden (Genesis 3:24) — is this because he expected some sort of retaliation? I guess only God knows. But once the first couple was in the land outside of paradise, they started to build a family: they produced children, and those children produced children in turn. Now here's what I'm wondering: At what point did people need to start carrying pistols? I honestly can't figure out how such a thing would become a necessity. I mean, I can jump mentally from ancient times to a modern city and understand why folks are now heavily armed, even with automatic weapons; for all the buildings are on fire, and everyone is at war with their friends & neighbors. But that's thousands of years later. Back when people just lived in the desert, or in the jungle, it seems that it would require a very perverse mind to want to invent a machine that projects deadly bullets into flesh. However, it does make sense that perhaps the first gun was used solely to slay songbirds, because they make such an annoying racket.
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