Tom Fitzpatrick, a burly, tattooed ex-Marine, had long regretted not qualifying for the corps' elite sniper unit. The programme, which trains soldiers to fire a bullet into an enemy's brain from more than a mile away, excludes smokers such as Fitzpatrick. Instead, the military taught him to install telephones. But several years later, Fitzpatrick, now a 30-year-old telephone repairman in Omaha, Nebraska, found a way to unlock his inner killer. He enrolled in "Basic... (GunPolicy.org)