Always on the ready, Barney would pull out his lone bullet, chamber it into his side arm and inevitably fire it into the ground, barely missing his own foot.
The near misses have included lone bullets striking doorjambs beside their faces as Marines peeked around corners, single rounds cracking by just overhead as Marines looked over mud walls, and bullets slamming into the dirt beside them as they ran across the many unavoidable open spaces in the area they have been assigned to clear.
A lone bugler played taps.
Cox of course was referring to the massacre Sunday night in Las Vegas, in which a lone gunman rained bullets down onto a country music festival, killing at least 58 people and injuring hundreds more before turning the gun on himself.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Istanbul nightclub attack that killed 39 partygoers in the first hours of 2017 when a lone gunman fired 180 bullets in a seven-minute shooting spree.
(The theory — upon which the possibility of a lone gunman depends — supposes that one bullet struck President Kennedy before travelling onward to inflict multiple wounds on Governor John Connally).
(The theory—upon which the possibility of a lone gunman depends—supposes that one bullet struck President Kennedy before travelling onward to inflict multiple wounds on Governor John Connally).
As an ambitious young lawyer for the Warren Commission, he took credit for originating the theory that a single bullet, fired by a lone gunman, struck both President John F. Kennedy and Gov. John B. Connally of Texas.
On April 4th, after meeting with local leaders in Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr. died an hour after being shot with a single bullet fired by a lone assassin.
When we narrow the field further and imagine the sort of tragedy involving a lone shooter, typically white and male, spraying bullets and embodying uncountable clichés of twisted solitude, the scales are tipped more.
