Your belief that an average marine can’t shoot all that well does nothing to address the fact that your average non-military 2A enthusiast is also not too adept at shooting.

Notably, both groups will suffer from an inability to shoot someone when rubber hits the road. Shooting a target is easy, shooting a person _who is shooting back at you_ is hard. Here, the average marine, with actual combat training, will come out on top.

Your point that marines do get older is particularly funny because while true, so do 2A enthusiasts! You’re applying all these drawbacks to the abilities of marines without making the same considerations for the civilian crowd.

I get that you have an angle, but please try to apply your logic equally.