I can see a few flaws in the argument that the military uses scopes for house to house fighting. Therefore they, scopes, are better.
They don't use conventional hunting scopes. They use Red-Dot sights. No magnification on almost all of them. The illuminated dot simply appears to float in space with no significant blind spots. Hunting scopes, aren't like that.
Second, the weapon of choice for house cleaning is the Uzi, not the various M16's. Sure, with a collapasable stock, they can be handled like an Uzi.
For hostage situations, the weapon of choice is the open sighted handgun. Shot two handed. Again, you can use an M4 type rifle, but there the sights of choice are the laser sights. E
