User blog comment:Codfan/Inaccuracies?????/@comment-1260687-20100223004422

No, the reason you shoot people is to kill. If you ever fire a weapon at someone's body and you don't intend to cease their existence, you need put your weapon away. That's a central tenet of the modern warror ethos; any action taken upon a hostile enemy is not to suppress, not to deny, but to engage and kill. The mission of a Marine rifle squad is to locate, close with, and destroy the enemy. There is never any concern given to merely wounding a man; a man who's hurt can still attack and kill you, a dead man can do no such thing.