No one ever fired a shot. No one was even threatened.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

A hot shot was a soldier who fired without aiming carefully.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The soldiers lit a cannon and fired a warning shot.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Yet they abandoned those they were responsible for, they were supposed to protect, and abandoned them even before any shot was fired at them."

VOA: standard.2009.04.08