Perhaps my claim was misinterpreted.
I'm no better at using a firearm than any other random civilian. I don't know how to operate one that isn't already loaded, had the safety disengaged, and is ready to fire.
However, I'm desensitized to the idea of using a weapon to kill something. I have, in some simulated, fantasy portion of my brain, killed tens of thousands of dogs and guards and headcrabs and cyberdemons and all the rest. It would not be any utterly new or unheard of thing for me, mentally, to shoot a firearm at a live target. I obviously haven't experienced all the psychological shock that comes from killing something that is actually real, but I still think that my brain would accept it after having seen it done and actually feeling that it had in some sense done it itself.
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