Security analyst describes Mumbai attacks as “real-life video game killing fantasy”

There I am, driving around town, listening to my local NPR station, soaking up disturbing international news like a good American, when I hear this troubling comment spoken by Brian Jenkins, security analyst with the RAND Corporation, regarding the recent attacks in Mumbai, India:

“…This in a sense for them was an opportunity to demonstrate their conviction, courage, although it doesn’t require a lot of courage to gun down unarmed people, but it becomes a kind of a real-life video game killing fantasy for the actual attackers themselves.”

Taken out of context, that sure sounds like Jenkins is a gamer hater. Really, he’s just…