Roadtrip
Can I hit a someone in the chest from 5 feet away. YES . . . . even if I'm excited
Have you ever done it? If not, how do you know?
Forget your target shooting ability, which I'm sure is superb. No one knows how they're going to respond in a situation like this - I don't care how macho you think you are. That's why soldiers spend so much time practising - so that it becomes second nature to them and they don't have to think about it. Have you had special forces training? If not, then I don't think you should be so confident.
I think you're confusing a natural desire to take your anger out on some terorist who comes barging into your cockpit with an actual ability to do so.
Just entertain the possibility for a moment that you are wrong, and at the critical moment, you hesitate. You have just multiplied the danger to your passengers and God knows how many people on the ground a hundred times. You had better be damn sure of yourself if you're going to take that kind of risk.
[ 16 October 2001: Message edited by: Covenant ]