“In wars prior to Viet Nam, in all recorded history, only 15% of front line soldiers used lethal force, 85% shot over the enemy’s head, just postured and blustered to scare the enemy into retreating. “
uh, right. Battle of Gettysburg ... 50k dead in three days. I am guessing that more than 15% were aiming to kill ...
“uh, right.”
Lots of people who don’t know better like to quote BS like that from Grossman. Grossman’s claims are just as absurd and mind-numbingly stupid as they sound, and backed by about as much hot air as you’d expect.
The ratio of fire crap needs to die, seriously people, someone calling himself a “Killologist” and claiming to have founded a new field of science called “killology” threw around make-believe numbers to add visceral impact to his false-thesis. Those numbers are fabrications. Grossman was quoting a journalist (Marshall) employed by the army who outright fabricated those numbers.
Quoting Grossman is a good way to prove that you don’t know the first thing about the subject, and that you don’t have the good sense to check your sources before you make absurd claims.