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    Posted: 25 October 2005 at 10:18pm
my parents aren't big on the whole gun thing... I need to convince them
to let me play
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tell them how safe it is and all the rules in paintball
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they already know all that, they just think its violent
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call it a marker.
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Show them this I found this on
actionpursuitgames.com its a paintball magazines
website and in the artivle section they have an article
based on getting your parents to let you play. Search
for it. but i found something else that might be
helpful
[URL=http://apg.cfw2.com/article.asp?content_id=67
77]http://apg.cfw2.com/article.asp?content_id=6777[/
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thanx dude
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Tell them that if they dont let you play your going to go around wearing a dress and playing with dolls and see if that makes them happy.
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I told my parents that it's better to spend my time playing paintball instead of doing drugs, and that it's better to spend my money on paint rather than hookers.
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Why don't you try respecting your parent decisions, they aren't going to change their mind, if they let you play it'd be because you annoyed them way too much, and will make them think you are more immature than they must already think you are if they feel you can't handle a simple game of tag.
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I don't respect my parents' decision because neither one of them have ever played a team sport or even watched one, for that matter. They have absolutely no idea what I and all my friends get out of paintball, and all the new people I have met over my short paintball career. There is just no way to tell them the way I feel when I play, and I don't think they'll ever get it.

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Just never call it a gun call it a marker, call it outs not kills and deffinetly tell them that it helps you get off the couch and doing exersize.
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Originally posted by TippmanHotshot TippmanHotshot wrote:

I don't respect my parents' decision because neither one of them have ever played a team sport or even watched one, for that matter. They have absolutely no idea what I and all my friends get out of paintball, and all the new people I have met over my short paintball career. There is just no way to tell them the way I feel when I play, and I don't think they'll ever get it.



I highly doubt they never were involved in any team activity, let alone a team sport for one thing, and chances are they probably do know, I knew what that was like, it doesn't last, especially if you have any desire for going beyond playing a couple weekends every few months with buds or at a field, especially tournament paintball (not speedball, competetion for prizes, it kills any bit of a good time as far as I am concerned)
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Do you have a girlfriend?

my friends parents are the same way, they dont like guns. His girlfriend got him a gun for his 18th birthday (he didnt ask her, she just did it) and now he just ignores his parents.

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slap da ho!

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Don't ignore your parents, or go against their wishes. This will only set you up for a heap load of trouble, and really strain your relations with your parents.

Since they don't like guns, load up Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, Soldier of Fortune and so forth on your computer. Make sure they see you playing these games, and then casually note that you're getting desensetized to these games, and at least paintball doesn't have blood.

Call it an adualts version of "tag". You're not shooting them, you're "tagging" them, and they come back next game

Actually take them to a paintball field to watch. Do you have any friends whose parents that play? Get them to talk to your parents. Do you have any friends whose parents go to watch? Have them invite your parents along.

Tell them it's safer than soccer (research this out, I've seen the stats somewhere)

Ask them how its any different than the NES gun for duckhunt?

Tell them that just becuase you play paintball, doesn't mean you'll acquire the means/skills to shoot a real gun (there are some big differences)
Ref: I want a nice clean game
player: but it's paintball!
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paintball is a great way to get exercise. it also builds communication and team work skills. if you transport and shoot your marker in a safe manner you wont have any trouble.

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Originally posted by FalloutMan FalloutMan wrote:

Why don't you try respecting your parent decisions, they aren't going to change their mind, if they let you play it'd be because you annoyed them way too much, and will make them think you are more immature than they must already think you are if they feel you can't handle a simple game of tag.

You obviously have no clue on how to convince someone's parents.
Tell them its safe. Give them statistics proving its pretty much safer than any sport out there. Tell them that it's better to play paintball all day than sit in front of the t.v. or computer all day. Tell them what everyone else said too. At first my parents said no, but I kept asking and proving that I was right and they finally let me buy one.

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i got my first paintball "marker" and my parents didnt know about it. i trust you'll do wahts right.
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i kept talking about mine, plus its good excersize, tell them that if you ever get drafted that paintball will give you some extra skills at moving, and concealing your body

talk abou that


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Tell your bleeding heart liberal cry baby parents about the 2nd amendment!

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.)

"The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.)

"The advantage of being armed . . . the Americans possess over the people of all other nations . . . Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in his Federalist Paper No. 46.)

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Second Amendment to the Constitution.)

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