[centurion316]

Grossman frames his argument from a position of authority. He tries to leverage his status as a professional Army officer to reinforce his points. He cannot be assailed.

He cites as proof for his argument:

During World War II, US Army Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall had a team of researchers study what soldiers did in battle. For the first time in history, they asked individual soldiers what they did in battle. They discovered that only 15 to 20 percent of the individual riflemen could bring themselves to fire at an exposed enemy soldier.

Grossman knows, or as a professional soldier ought to know, that this statement has been thoroughly debunked. Marshall made up the data rendering his "study" useless.

While I may agree with some of his points, I believe that his writings need to be taken with a fairly large dose of skepticism.

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for pointing out the S.L.A. Marshall discrepancy and Grossman’s appeal to his own “authority.” Logic fail...

[Squantos]

Well said ....

[Tucker39]

Methinks he piled on all that verbiage, and went on and on ad nauseum, because he knew in his heart he was in over his depth and blowing smoke like crazy.

[MV=PY]

"While I may agree with some of his points, I believe that his writings need to be taken with a fairly large dose of skepticism. "

Agreed. He throws in all sorts of fun facts with numbers in them as if they would hold up to scrutiny.

"The prison population in America nearly quadrupled between 1975 and 1992."

So how much did the population grow?

My BS alarm lights up when people do that.