"Yeah. It's just like with a bow. First you just took a flexible stick, tied some string to each end and got something that would hopefully fly right. Then you started to carve the bow into different shapes so it was more powerful and more accurate. Same with guns. New guns come out. Some are highly accurate so you can shoot from a mile away. Some fire hundreds of bullets in a minute. You can get a small one purely for self defense, though if you hit a guy once they're gonna stay down."

Blaine shrugged. "Even if there weren't guns, there would be knives, staffs, and swords. You wear armor. Are you saying you don't feel a constant threat of potentially being killed?"