Snipers have made a huge difference in certain battles even holding a city against the mighty German army in WWII. I'm talking the most experienced, first line troops who were desperate to capture Stalingrad in order to have shelter from the Russian winter. Teams of snipers held them off for months until the mighty T-34 tanks appeared on the scene and saved the day. It could be argued that those sniper rifles turned the tide in that war because up until that point the German army had not lost any battle and they generally rolled over armies like they didn't exist in their Blitzkreig tactics.
I think the tens of thousands of Russian and German troops who died in the brutal street to street, house to house, room to room fighting might have a different opinion.
Let's talk about an EMP bomb and what it would do to our country. Let's talk about Iran building a bomb as we speak.
[moderator hat on] Let's not.[/moderator hat on]