Why guns and explosives?
In the grand scheme of things guns and explosives are new in the human experience. Throwing rocks into a lake is probably the closest thing that occurred in the million years prior to the invention of gunpowder. Even that activity is still a source of brief pleasure for kids of all ages. The human brain wasn’t evolved in the presence of today’s devices and the ‘magic’ they perform stimulates the innate curiosity and wonder of something new and strange that contributed to humans being so much better with tools than other animals. Firearms are wonderful tools for performing action at a distance but the effect that small ‘pebble’ has on something several hundred yards away is not always obvious. Typically it’s just a small hole punched in a piece of paper which can’t be seen without powerful optics or a several minute walk. Explosives change that. You get nearly instantaneous feedback in the form of a cloud of smoke followed shortly by the boom and the thump to your chest from the explosi
