Haha, please dont make me pick apart what you just said. I'll leave it at show me where I directly compared a soldier to "people who shoot up schools".
He should really re-read the thread from start to finish. Every single last assumption he made his posts on, he made and no one else ever said. You're right, soldiers are trained to be killers, this has been common knowledge and a fairly common saying you hear in tv, film, press, books for decades as a way of describing what becoming a soldier is be it historical media or a made up story. its very common and the intention behind the wording is known by apparently everyone in the world bar one.
He keeps talking about soldiers feeling emotion as if you said they don't, you didn't. You can act as a killer with ruthless efficiency, be it in self defence or not and feel yet not react based on your feelings, everyone is capable of this in any situation, soldiers are specifically trained not to react to emotion. yes its hard, no one said it isn't, no one said they don't feel, again, a point he brought up himself and argued against himself.
AS for Thompson, always has and always has been a pratt.
To say you can't gleam "any" training from games is pushing it too far though. How many people are born with the knowledge that as a sniper you need to aim infront of the target if its moving and in how many games have we all had to do this to make a kill in a game. This is something that could be put to use in the real world. however, if someone has a gun, practice with that would give them the same help. Who cares, games simply don't caused violent attacks, you can learn some basics to help you shoot a gun from books, net, games, film or actually using one, none of that will cause you to go nuts and kill everyone either.
Every single person in the world is capable of murder, you don't require training in any weapons, or any encouragement, you either decide to do it or not, the latter for most of us.
