I completely agree, in fact I almost think you should sign a contract before you can get a paintball gun, but that I know would be troublesome for most players out there.  I still feel that we need to stop these guys... there making a bad rep for the paintball world.

Kill em all, let god sort em' out.

Double post = double trouble...

Anyways, I think that when you buy a paintball gun, you should gain a sense of respect for it and use common sense.

StoneHurler wrote: I completely agree, in fact I almost think you should sign a contract before you can get a paintball gun, but that I know would be troublesome for most players out there.  I still feel that we need to stop these guys... there making a bad rep for the paintball world. Kill em all, let god sort em' out.

Isn't this the kinda thing we're trying to stop? Paintball associated with extreme violence

 that he did

-PREDATOR- wrote: Don't double post.

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,

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.

Knight of Fire wrote: 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.

Copied and pasted from APG Ezine

FOUR teenagers in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were arrested on many
charges stemming from an evening of breaking into cars. The teens
allegedly drove through the streets of Port St. Lucie and shot out the
windows of parked cars, using "either a bb gun or paintball" marker,
according to a January 22 Sun-Sentinel article by Sarah Myrick.
Reportedly, three of the teens either are under investigation or on
probation for burglary.

IN Chattanooga, Tennessee, police reported that a man was attacked by
five males in a van who pulled up next to him and started shooting
paintballs at him. Two shot and three cheered as he was hit in the
back and shoulder and suffered minor abrasions. Anyone with
information of this crime should contact local authorities.

ARRESTED for allegedly robbing a liquor store while wielding a
paintball marker, one Michael Mitrano of Somerville, MA, was caught
after  he crashed his getaway car into a telephone pole.

MT. Vigilante wrote: 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.

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....

evil_fingers wrote: MT. Vigilante wrote: 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. 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....

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.

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.

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).

Edit - for typos, DOH