[MoralSense]

Hey, if you want some cool tales of murder, read "12 Caesars," by Suetonius. It'll give you chills, all the ways Romans had to off each other. If they'd had hypodermic needles, they might have wiped out the empire entirely.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The Lateran Council of 1139 outlawed the crossbow because that weapon allowed a peasant foot soldier to kill an armored knight -- obviously not part of God's plan.