Researchers find 'first gun victim'

Yahoo! News ^ | Jun 20, 2007 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[JoeSixPack1]

If I had that last name, the day I turned 18 I would change it.

Ummm,, Being 'Mr. Cock' probably has its benefits.

[umgud]

Was it an assault musket?

[Hegemony Cricket]

"Was he a victim? Or was it the first case where a gun stopped a home invasion???"

I'm guessing he was cleaning the musket, and it just went off...

[bannie]

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Hank shot a villain.

[lowbridge]

[gondramB]

>>The skull was found among a large group of bones of ancient Incas, who had died violently in the early 1500s as the Spanish Conquistadors battled the native empire.

The bones were in shallow graves, leading the archaeologist to speculate the burials were done hurriedly during conflict, perhaps an uprising against the Spanish in 1536. <<

The Spanish had guns but didn’t shoot anybody in Europe? That seems odd...

[BaylorDad]

...first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere.

Claiming it is easy. Proving it, not so easy. Let's just say it was the first discovered for that time period.

More than likely, the first victim bit the dust, turned to dust, and will forever rest in the dustbin of history.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The good old days.

[Physicist]

The Spanish had guns but didn’t shoot anybody in Europe? That seems odd...

Being white, the Europeans who were shot don't count as "victims".

[Waverunner]

Spain needs to pay reparations...
And return all the Inca and Aztec Gold , Silver and Gems

[gondramB]

Silly me...

[dasboot]

Gee....forensics experts, blah blah: get a metal detector to the site and recover some musket balls? Hello? Hello?

[Jaded]

The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere.

Is it me or is this an odd sentence. What is with this victim crap? Mr. Cock et al know this how? The world was a much less liberal touchy-feely place 500 years ago.

[BenLurkin]

Still looking for the first SUV victim.

[SunkenCiv]

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