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Only relatively speaking. Our military spend many gruenly months training our youth to be killers. From the movie "Full Metal Jacket":

Drill Sargent to new recruits in training for the Vietnam war:

-Do any of you know who Chales Whitman was?

-Sir, he shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir.

-Charles Whitman killed 12 people.... from a 28-story observation tower at the University of Texas... from distances of up to 400 yards.

-Anybody knows who Lee Harvey Oswald was?

-Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir.

-And do you know how far away he was?

-Sir, it was far! from that depository building, sir.

-250 feet. He was 250 feet away and shooting at a moving target. He got off three rounds with an Italian bolt action rifle in six seconds...and scored two hits including a head shot!

-Do any of you know where these individuals learned to shoot?

-Sir, in the Marines, sir.

-In the Marines! outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do! And before you leave you will be able to do the same thing!

(At the end of the training one of the recruits shot dead the drill Sargent) Fiction often depicts reality.

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