I watched my boy acquire the P and S skills from just such a game. When I took him shooting at age 8 he nailed it every time he just pointed and shot. He took a lot of practice before he could properly aim the gun. You video gamers are so damn sensitive. It is as if you got caught with your hand in the cookie jar and are insisting that it was baseball cards in there. You know you are wasting your time and that makes you hair trigger sensitive.
And you think kids learning to use guns is a BAD thing?
Blaming games is just as wrong as blaming guns and it also feeds big government.
“I watched my boy acquire the P and S skills from just such a game...at age 8 he nailed it every time he just pointed and shot. He took a lot of practice before he could properly aim the gun. You video gamers are so damn sensitive...You know you are wasting your time and that makes you hair trigger sensitive.” [arthurus, post 145]
You’ve got it all wrong.
I’ve tried every manner & type of video game and found all of them inauthentic & boring. People who don’t know what they are talking about bother me even less.
I picked up the knowledge you so indignantly dispute through direct experience in the uniformed military, where I was a rated aviator & combat aircrew member in B-52s and B-1Bs.
I was also assigned to a technical staff agency responsible for operational testing. It was not a very large community and we had no choice save to work with all the other US armed services, most of the intelligence agencies, a very wide selection of security-related organizations, and allied nations. I was repeatedly consulted by acquisition professionals in uniform and by defense system contractors on design concepts, and had a hand in design of subsystems for the B-1B, B-2, and a number of other major weapon systems.
There is no such thing as any generalized ability to perform military tasks. Shooting individual handheld firearms is only a tiny portion of the larger picture, and the relevance of that specific talent has been declining in importance on the battlefield for well over a century.
Despite that, I support firearms training, for youth and for adults. I went through NRA youth programs, and I cannot praise them strongly enough for teaching concentration and discipline, and instilling motivation to work toward a goal, no matter how distant & difficult. No other activity available to civilians prepares prospective recruits for the trials & challenges they will encounter, so effectively.
But NRA programs didn’t do anything to directly benefit my career, outside of giving me a leg up in earning marksmanship ribbons and landing a spot on the intercollegiate rifle team at the US Air Force Acdemy.