Pistol found that killed 8.5 million people

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 22, 2004 | KATE CONNOLLY

[El Sordo]

Dunno if I buy into that.

Yes, it would be a very differen world. But the ideology encompassed by the different -isms had been gaining speed for a while. And sooner or later the "powder-keg" that was Europe would have started shooting about something. Perhaps the alternate possibility might have been a Europe where Fascism triumphs.

[Lx]

The rise in nationalism Build-up of military might System of military alliances

You forgot the most important reason, it was all GW Bush's fault.

[Robert357]

I had always heard that the pistol used was the FN Browning Model 1900 or "the old model" Browning.

Click here if picture doesn't load to go to FN Mod 1900 pic

[Paleo Conservative]

If the Archduke had never been assassinated, we would be living in a very different world today, one in which Fascism and Nazism and Communism would be mere words in a dictionary instead of affecting hundreds of millions of lives. So yes, one human life is as important as a billion.

I doubt it. The national and imperial rivalries in Europe still existed regardless of whether the Archduke was murdered. It was just a matter of time before something sparked a war.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Pretty creepy. Government tyranny killed tens of millions, and the title blames it on a gun. The gun-grabbers would be proud!

[Junior]

I've always held that June 28, 1914 was THE big turning point in history. Folks nowadays like to focus on WWII, with scant attention paid to the Great War -- but without the latter there would have been no WWII, no Soviet Union, no Adolph Hitler, no Cold War, no state of Israel, no partitioning of the Mideast, ad infinitum...

[Junior]

You've always struck me as a history buff (maybe it's that book you wrote). Mayhaps you'll enjoy this.

[Graybeard58]

If the Archduke had never been assassinated, we would be living in a very different world today

An interesting observation but I believe that if the Archduke hadn't been assassinated some other incident would have set of the powder keg in Europe.

[nmh]

Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?

Gives me the creeps.

That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.

[nmh]

Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?

Gives me the creeps.

That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.

[nmh]

Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?

Gives me the creeps.

That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.

[nmh]

Why would a Catholic want THAT gun?

Gives me the creeps.

That gun needs to be destroyed. It's been used for evil and not something to be venerated. Then again, some are awed by evil and wish to preserve it.

[nmh]

Sorry about the triple posting.

Just surprised that a Catholic priest would want that.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'd wondered about this pistol for some time. Archy was kind enough to answer FReepmail and provide info awhile back.

[RobRoy]

>>Musta been one helluva magic bullet!<<

Well, you just get everybody to stand in a really straight line...

[what's up]

How did the country that gave us Luther spawn such horror this century.

I'd love to know the progression of that dynamic.

[Revolting cat!]

[Squantos]

Anyone have a pic of hitlers pistol that saved billions of people buy helping him remove hisself from the gene pool ?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Anyone have a pic of hitlers pistol?

Shame he didn't have a cleaning accident in 1933.

[TX Bluebonnet]

You can stand in Gavrilo Princip's footsteps where he fire the fatal shot on a sidewalk in Sarajevo. Or you used to be able to - I guess it's still there.