[LouisianaLobster]

Davis says the toughest part of the deployment is that it means a year away from his wife and 6-year-old son. But serving in a war zone is the opportunity to fulfill a dream he's had since he was a kid. "It's one of those things I wanted to do since I was 12," he says. Reading about famous snipers was a favorite pastime. Among his role models: Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock, a Marine sniper in Vietnam with 98 confirmed kills; and Sgt. 1st Class Randy Shugart and Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, two Delta Force snipers who died in Somalia in 1993 trying to rescue the crew of a downed Black Hawk helicopter.

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

[sd-joe]

>> "I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'." <<

I would think that if you were involved with your kid and raised him/her right, you would understand exactly where the kid was coming from.

It depends on the intentions, doesn't it. There is a world of difference between a criminal serial killer and a professional military person doing his job to protect his country and his civilization.

[Imal]

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

Hey, at least he was willing to wait until he grew up.

[Maigrey]

But it sounds like this "kid" as you call it understands that he is good at something, and wants to do his part protecting his country.

If taking out the enemy in secret saves 10 lives, so be it.

[Leisler]

Well, you can always hope he'll tell you he wants to wear designer pumps and go to hairdressing school.

[TalBlack]

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

7 posted on 12/26/2003 5:20:20 AM PST by LouisianaLobster


The likes of George S. Patton spent their entire working lives in service to their country and preached effectivness in battle to the nth degree with out ever saying anything sick or pathological as you ascribe to those who were and are Men and who have secured for you your freedom.

You, being on such a high moral plane may have missed this. No, no...no need to thank me.

[rageaholic]

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

Ask him to define "people." If he mentions the Home Depot parking lot or anything like that, you'll know you raised a bad kid.

[ballplayer]

Try Thinking he is not a wuss like you

[Publius6961]

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

I do now what I think of a so-called adult who would invent those words and ascribe them to a 12-year-old.
Unless I missed it in the narrative? Help me out here.

[xm177e2]

I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads'.

Military snipers generally go for shots to the center of the chest. Police snipers are the ones who try for headshots.

[7MMmag]

dear mr. lobster,

i reckon you may get a few more replys for;
"I honestly don't know what i would think if my 12 year old kid would say 'when i grow up i want to shoot people through their heads."

yes, a statement like that would cause me some worry, too, from a twelve year-old.
now if it were a more mature fellow, whom understood more fully what potentially may be at stake, one might tell them, "no, not for the head (unless that's all that is or will become visible), shoot for center of body mass, instead.---See rule .308---

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me .. all he dreamed of was "serving in a war zone" .. it doesn't say he dreamed of shooting people in the head. And .. he didn't shoot the guy in the head, he shot him in the chest.

And .. if he hadn't been trained to shoot the guy .. HOW MANY OF OUR SOLDIERS WOULD WE HAVE LOST. This is war, and war is not nice or pretty .. but it is necessary.