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Old November 29th, 2013, 12:10 PM
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Seems every infantry soldier may eventually be a super sniper.

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This even brings up ethical issues for me and I spend a lot of time at the range. Just learning how to hit a target at 1000 yards is a skill that cannot be taught to just anyone and the guys that do it take pride in that skill. Then you need to apply that skill in a real world situation where you are carefully targeting the enemy. It's a different situation than normal infantry and a different mind set is required and what I think offsets the " cold blooded killer" aspect of sniping IS the skill it takes to do it well and the years of training. Now all you need is a psychopath that you can train in a week.

They system as it stands could not be used for normal infantry as it requires the trigger held down until the "tag" is required and in a chaotic combat situation that's just not going to work but it reduces the art of sniping down to video game levels. The Genie is out of the bottle now

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I cant see this once adapted being used by anyone but the military, its to damn dangerous to be let loose to the general public & would take the "sport" out of hunting.
Sure you miss some but where is the feel good factor going to come from when you nail a shot with this.
The only thing you can improve is the on target response once you have tagged the target.
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Unfortunately far to many folks these days seem to think desire to do something is all that's necessary.
Having to have the aptitude and learn the skills is "unfair".
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