Ranks right up there with Walter Cronkite firing the gun but hoping he didn’t hit anyone.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
IIRC it was in light of that finding that the military switched from circle targets to human silhouette targets.
Nowadays with your average 18 year old having pointed an electronic gun at an electronic human shaped adversary and fired on target some 100,000 times - probably not much of a problem.
The Germans are either at your throat or at your feat. During WWII a dead German was a good German.
To quote from the movie Patton....
“when you put your hand in a bunch of goo that moments before was your best friends face, you will know what to do”