Don, you and Jim are childishly simplistic in your assessments.
We have no objective evidence of how the deaths occurred.

We do know that the first soldiers landed with paintball guns in their hands, and holstered pistols.

It could easily be, that faced with an overwhelming number of suicidal fanatics armed with clubs and chains, they used their pistols to save their lives.
That would all be entirely consistent with the evidence we do have.