I agree with the ‘remain silent’ part, and the gun courses’ teaching. But they teach that as a warning, not an aspiration.

Surely you can see why ‘ending a life’ is a terrible idea to identify as your motivation, and how adopting it as a primary mindset can introduce other possible lapses in judgement and indirect evidence that will ultimately come back to haunt an otherwise justified defensive use of fire.

EDIT to add the fact that developing a (hyper)focus on ‘killing the enemy’ can also hurt operations in a military setting, both on a macro level (Vietnam ‘success’ metrics) as well as a platoon or squad level, where soldiers and leaders often fall into a ‘there’s the enemy, git ‘em!’ mentality that overcomes their detached professional focus on achieving tactical mission objectives, and drives them to make uneccessary maneuvers that result in increased casualties.

I agree with the ‘remain silent’ part, and the gun courses’ teaching. But they teach that as a warning, not an aspiration.

Surely you can see why ‘ending a life’ is a terrible idea to identify as your motivation, and how adopting it as a primary mindset can introduce other possible lapses in judgement and indirect evidence that will ultimately come back to haunt an otherwise justified defensive use of fire.