Originally Posted by Rochard

We need to accept the truth here.

US Marines, when they are on the firing line for the first time and have to pull the trigger with the intention of taking someone's life.... Nearly one third of them cannot do it.

We watch too much TV and movies. We think it's easy to be a hero and run towards the shooting; We think someone can run into a room with a bad guy with a gun and instantly drop him with one shot and.... This is not the way life works.