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In reply to the discussion: 'Most lethal sniper in US history': Chris Kyle shot dead on Texas gun range. [View all]Bucky
(54,003 posts)that you're basically making up your own definitions to well established terms. You can call it "floral display" if you like. For the rest of society there's a core understanding that battles are different than peace, even if you can't see the difference.
This is, of course, not to say that the battles he fought in were necessary, well chosen, or not the result of a crooked bunch of oil-grabbers who'd hijacked the American government. But I don't want to live in a country where the military is free to ignore or countermand the directives of the civilian government.
And, again, without defending the particular views of this one sniper, I will say that a sniper is a far more selective killer in a battlefield than an airstrike, a scud, a mortar, a bunkerbuster, a tank, a drone, or a swarm of troops going house to house through a neighborhood looking for a suspected insurgent. Snipers rarely kill innocents; a precision targeting that most of American battlefield firepower cannot claim.