What is behind “David’s” slingshot?

Many centuries ago small, young David bested giant Goliath using a sling shot against sword and armour. This is an heroic story at the route of both Judaism and Christianity. Writer Malcolm Gladwell exposes the possible, if not likely, fallacies in this story. The main one was that David “brought a gun to a knife fight”.

Gladwell’s contention is that all assembled warriors looking on realized immediately that it was not a fair fight, but favoured David. Most people now, maybe then, fail to appreciate how deadly a sling is in the hands of somebody who knows how to use…