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It should also be noted that this is NOT a new issue. Maybe you were too young to have worried about it in 1998, but since I've been playing since 1989 I can remember it being a topic in the paintball magazines (the only way we heard what was going on in the industry back then besides the local store gossip).
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some ppl bye paintball guns for accually playing paintball but i know some ppl bye it for like other kids and they go around shooting sings and cars and propertys and that sux cause ppl get mad. and its usualy kids or teens going around i dont think adults would do that unless thier stupid.
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the first thing that should be done if a organization is made is to stop the
classification of paintball markers as firearms. this classification lumps the paintballers together with the gun nut crowd, and could be a step towards getting rid of the violent image. |
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Skillet42565
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Those are some really well thought out statements..., but the government is always looking for an excuse to get rid of paintball..., so maybe we SHOULD form some sort of organization...
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MT. Vigilante
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Thats not true, all those laws and requirements are not in place because of the N.R.A., rather, the N.R.A. was created because of them, it is a civilian organization that was formed by responsible citizens to protect peoples right to own a firearm, plus in order for all those laws and regulations to apply to paintball guns, the Federal Justice department has to recognize them as wepons which they have not done yet nor will they do it any time soon. Especialy not Because of an organization formed to teach people the proper use of Markers. And besides, I'm not talking about the industy forming this, I'm saying that regular responsible players form it. Edited by MT. Vigilante |
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If the Paintballing Industry were to form an organization like the NRA, we would all have to register our markers as "real firearms" and thats something that the Paintballing Community dont want to happen and that would also give a good reason to the Moms and Dads out there for not letting their sons and daughters in purchasing/using a paintball marker and there would also be an age requirement and a fee to be qualified to get one.... |
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I agree, I think that we should form some kind of Alliance of respondible players, like a paintball version of the N.R.A., who whould make sure people know that the markers are safe as long as they are used apropraitly and that its not the markers that comit these crimes but the idiots who pull the trigger, and also this group could do everything possible to make sure that Paintball Markers are not outlawed, Just like the N.R.A. does for firearms.
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Copied and pasted from APG Ezine FOUR teenagers in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were arrested on many |
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There are are couple of good articles on this subject in the march 2005 issue of APG magizine. They show the seriousness of this issue.
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The idiots who go and shoot cars, ect. are people who have little or no respect for thier community or the sport. But the fact that the media titles us "the players" as a bunch of vandals isn't helping out image at all. When ever there is someone hurt or something damaged by a Marker, the whole sport and the players take the heat. Where as if someone gets beaten down with a base ball bat, you won't see baseball getting banned from town. We are rinning with a new sport here, thats why people don't really see it as a sport. Like real guns, if someone wants to do something stuped, they're going to do it wether they sign a piece of paper or not. About the best thing that can be done is to tell people about the sport, and try to get alittle more positive media. we're better off if we can keep our sport away from all the paper work and the legal matters. well, those are my thoughts. |
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man finally someone brings it up it has to be stoped my town has alot of players and noone ever has vandalized ne thing but same story here some idiot is shooting signs and stuff so the cops will only let us play in private property or town property (which are full of quaders and dirtbikers) they dont realize its a sport and that were athlets mabe its time local fields are roped off to let us play our sport and not be bothered?
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I quit car hunting with paintball guns ages ago.
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I have seen this like 5 times...send the message out there, if it dont stay drop it or put it in your sig. But anyways I agree we need to just keep the game safe and hope dinks dont ruin by doing drive bys and what not, |
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the town i live has alot of kids the p/b markers and we have never doneanything violent with them.but still some drunk guys got a few froze some balls and went down the street shooting windows and cars.now my town has an ordinence against them.but we still have ares and dont walk around showing them off.this shows how a few idiots can ruin it for everyone
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Its not jus kids going around committing acts of vanadalisms wit a marker, even adults have gone around commiting robberies by using a marker and especially the idiot that decided to use a marker on a "off duty police officer", its a never ending problem that has no solution.
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that he did
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Oh santy showed you.
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Isn't this the kinda thing we're trying to stop? Paintball associated with extreme violence |
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More like we'll do nothing except make sure the media that reports violence also notes that the idiots who abuse the privilege are the extreme minority. Most of the people who do these kinds of attacks are idiots who went to Wally World, saw that $100 would buy them tons of neat crap, then proceeded to get drunk and shoot their neighbors. Wal-Mart should not sell these things.. I know they bring younger kids into the sport, blah blah.. but they're the most readily available source for cheap drive-by vandalism out there. So rather than form a coalition or alliance against people who'd never even hear of it, we need to focus on making paintball more positive in the public eye and on restricting easy sales of cheap guns to people. And no, I have no idea how to go about the second part without annoying large numbers of people. That's why this is the ideas forum. |
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