Not much sympathy here

[classic68]

The word kid really does not apply here. The "teens" were 18 and adults. Not children by any stretch. They should be held accountable for all the damages they caused to homes and vehicles. They are very lucky to be alive. Unfortunately this will give paintball and gun rights both black eyes. I can see more bans coming.

[Toll]

I can see it flowing like:

-Kids shoot at guy in the street
-Guy returns fire
-Guy wounds kid
-Kids ditch paintball guns thinking they can get away with it
-Concoct story about their gunshot wounds that makes it seem feasible
-f150 is a lie, keeps police looking for some one who doesnt exist therefore they cant question him


Just my take. I wouldnt take their words for more than fiction anyway

[Frizzle Fry]

Any chance the man in the F-150 had alcohol in his system? Could explain the missed shots and the fact that he was not around after the incident occurred? There is also the possibility that, with all of the bullet holes along the car, that he was not trying to hit someone, but scare them.


I'm curious to see how this one plays out. A respectable gun owner in his case would most likely have reported something to the police. Especially in Texas where the gun laws aren't as strict, if he felt endangered by the "weapons" that were being fired upon him, he wouldn't have been in very much trouble for opening on a car that was firing at him... But the disarmament and the chasing down... If I were shooting for my life, I'd also be headed in the opposite direction of my assailants. Which is why I feel like there is more to the story that has not been told..

There's recently been a big case in Massachusetts like this, in fact so similar that it truly should be mentioned in this thread because it has an interesting twist. The news report initially had it like this, taken from statements to the police by the one person capable of talking about it.



A firefighter and his girlfriend are driving behind a silver sports car in the middle of the night, the driver of the sports car keeps slamming his brakes, finally pulling over. The firefighter gets out, approaches the sports car, and the guy in sports car gets out and shoots him with a hand gun then speeds off. The firefighter is still in a coma, so the girlfriend relates the story to the police and continues to give information. The sportscar guy is generally regarded as a bastart who tried to kill the firefighter in a case of "road rage". That's the girlfriends story; they hadn't found the sports car and the firefighter was in a coma.

...then we find out that there was a good amount of cocaine in the firefighters car (and his system).

So, you think, why do people slam on their brakes? Someone is "riding their ***" or accelerating dangerously close to their car. Why do people shoot other people? Well, what would you do if you pulled over to let someone pass, and they got out of their car and came at you, possibly in a coke induced rage. Why would you run? Well, there's another person in the car and who knows what they're going to do.



I'm not saying the guy who shot the firefighter is absolutely right, nor am I saying the guy who shot these adult "teens" is, I just understand that the situation is bigger than anything we'll see in the 3 news reports and 1 police blotter that have come out so far. The best way to not get shot is to not shoot at people; these "teens" are victims only of their own stupidity.

[DeuceSV]

I agree completely. There is a lot to the story (MOST LIKELY) that we have not been told.

But I do know the following:
The adult "teens" were victims of their own stupidity,
This incident is bad for paint ball,
This incident is bad for firearms.

[DFSniper]

[DeuceSV]

Like shooting some other house would have been okay...

[Soopa Villain17]

The man should have followed and reported to police. If he had protected himself at his home, that is one thing. To follow the teens, catch them and disarm them and then shoot at them is worst. He is an adult. Those were teenagers. He is the one that should know better. Teenagers have a habit of making bad decisions. The thought and reasoning process isn't fully developed yet. I know I did a lot of dumb things growing up that I would like to have removed from my past. I don't disagree that the teens should be punished. They easily could have been shot and killed during their shooting escapade.

there 18 , that makes them legal adults.

[Watcher]

Sounds like, guy shoots kid, kid drops paintball gun, guy pickes up paintball gun...

Not that he took the gun, he just retrieved it.


Where the 11 rounds and the pickup truck came from I don't think anyone will know. But it does sound like those dumb guys are "misremembering" how things went down.



Either way, it makes us paintballers looks worse and gun owners look crazier...

[sjrtk]

Some News agencies (not to be mentioned by name) are liberal slant and some others have a conservative slant. The liberal slant makes 18 year olds "kids" and gun owners the super devil. While the other is polar opposite. So no there isn't the whole story available to us. But Having been shot at (professionally in the sand box) it is hard to even keep from reacting like on training or instinct to in such a situation. I think you guys are right there stories are BS trying to make them selves out to be the victims (which they are of there own stupidity). But only they and the other guy have a clue about what really happened.

But is is a hit to our sport and possibly our rights.

[Frizzle Fry]

The liberal slant makes 18 year olds "kids" and gun owners the super devil. While the other is polar opposite.

That's why I'm not a liberal; you've got it pegged. 18 is legally an adult, and gun ownership is right guaranteed by the constitution.

[CatoRockwell]

That's why I'm not a liberal; you've got it pegged. 18 is legally an adult, and gun ownership is right guaranteed by the constitution.

Hallelujah!

There are two hobbies I have aside from paintball. 1. History, and the other is REAL firearms.