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Pax, I get what you're saying here, and I agree. The hard choice must be made, even if it is a horrible choice. This I understand. However, the idea that people would choose to practice on a range shooting at cutouts of children, pregnant women, etc., is still reprehensible to me. To desensitize yourself to this is to dehumanize yourself.
I know most debates here concern legalities of gun ownership and tend to shy away from these sorts of ethical quagmires, but I feel strongly enough about this sort of thing to 'go there'. We don't need this. At no point in the United States' long relationship with private gun owners, military, and law enforcement ever require exercises that simulated shooting children and expectant mothers (until now apparently). The world may have changed in the past few decades in terms of how threats are represented, but it hasn't changed THAT much.
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