Let's just agree to disagree without being disagreeable.
My take on the subject, and on which I base my opinion, is that the "sport" is lost when the target is folks, or a facsimile thereof, and the fact the shooter is shooting from cover.
Sniping, for sport I'll agree to, as long as the target is an critter, groundhog, squirrel, deer or some other game animal. A bull's eye target just represents a vital area of that critter.
Nowhere in sport shooting does it involve running from cover to cover, nor rapidity of the reload.
Having said this, this is my observation and opinion drawn from that observation. And, as for the correspondent that opined the only sport shooting involved a shotgun and clay target, that clay target is a substitute for a living bird.
My opinion is that when the target is another person, or substitute thereof, the sport is gone from the shooting.
Bob Wright