“American Sniper” has polarized the USA. Is it a red versus blue state thing? A guns, NRA, hunting, NASCAR-watching thing versus a latté-sipping, New York Times-reading thing?
One way or another, the fact is, stories about snipers and Navy SEALs are infiltrating our books and movies more than ever before.
Take the mega-popular Jack Reacher novels: Reacher’s ex-Army military police, a sort of nose-tackle-sized high-plains drifter, who gets pulled into rescuing desperate folks from bad people. He’s a talented marksman: He can spell out letters with a sniper rifle on a tree half a mile away.
What is it about sniping that we must hear about it over and over like bedtime stories?
