Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens be allowed to Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #532 –
The face of modern warfare has changed with every war that's come along. Methods that worked in America's Revolutionary War would have been a good way to get your men killed by the time of the Civil War, and one really good reason why WW1 was such a bloodbath was because generals were still trying to use tactics that worked in previous wars but wouldn't work in trench warfare facing modern machine guns.
Snipers are used because the method works. It's as simple as that. You could argue that in many instances, snipers are actually a more "moral" way of doing it because the sniper will seek to kill only his target, not killing civilians indiscriminately the way so many other methods do.