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the soldiers that came back from Vietnam....Think they got desensitized to death and violence while shooting at people, and having to kill women and small children to save their own lives while fighting in a war? Don't think so.......How many ended up with severe emotional baggage? Lots......Probably most of them....

this begs the question of how they did it at the time, a human being is programed at birth to respond in a certain way to a person in danger, it goes againstr the thing that defines us from most animals...to kill a person is to go against everything that makes us civilised, and is not undertaken (usualy) lightly...a GI does basic training to become able to kill...fieldcraft comes into it, but mostly to learn to kill.

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As for your comment on the Columbine shootings, that's rediculous...That was one person......It's not as if a whole school full of Doom players all went on a rampage shooting everything in sight with a rocket launcher.........As for the kid shooting 8 times and managing 8 hits while cops only manage half of that........It's easy to hit 8 people out of however many HUNDREDS there were in that room.......You could close your eyes and fire into a crowded room and hit 8 out of 8..........That point holds no weight with me at all.......

there were 2 people in collumbine...im nitpicking, were talking a headshot here...dead with a single bullet.

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Wow, ignorance amazes me sometimes........Why come here and ask for opinions, but by your own admission aren't looking for someone's opinion, you're trying to illicit a point....That's irrelevant though....

well, sorry

thanks for the response