Many of these comments sound like the utterance of a psychopath, someone who does not view other people as humans, merely objects. I don't know if it's necessary to be a psychopath in order to be a successful sniper, but it probably helps.
I was once offered the opportunity to become a sniper, but declined. Not my line. I remember talking to WWII and Korean War soldiers who told me that captured snipers were interrogated with rifle butts and bayonets and then executed with their own weapons, and I am perfectly okay with that. It is a hazardous occupation and that's one of the hazards.
During WWII, General Omar Bradley sent a memo to his subordinate commanders explaining that he had visited the Prisoner of war cages and had seen numbers of captured German snipers. He informed them that he didn't want to see anymore of that.
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