I began this with the statement by so many that somehow god sanctions guns.

I wrote about the real world of St. Paul the apostle in Corinth and how he, accepted as a Roman, taught the faith as he learned it from Jesus Christ.

While a saint for the following and teaching he conducted, he was not apostle. He is not in the picture of "The Last Supper." 

Paul's family were tent makers. They had money because in the manufacture of tents one has to have material and thread as well as framing to build tents. He lived in Tarsus and later would live in Jerusalem to study law under Gamaliel I. He actually prosecuted 'the new religion' and approved of martyrdom for the followers of Jesus. It would be on the road to Damascus he was converted.

He would then travel to convert the Gentiles to the new religion. He set churches during his travels to teach from and leave with new teachers of the faith. Eventually, he would be arrested and due to his Roman status was taken to Ceasar in Rome and was placed under house arrest for two years. He would then return to his journeys and again arrested and again. It is stated he was later martyred in a beheading outside the gates of Rome.