Yet another ignorant article about paintball....

[Kaiser Bob]

This is an article from the UMASS-Amherst school newspaper. The writer has a very biased and unfounded view towards paintball, just wanted to get you thoughts. If youre so inclined, write some feedback! I tried to inform her a bit, my post is the Anthony Jones post.

the link: http://www.dailycollegian.com/vnews/.../3c7afa1bbb820

[cphilip]

Well there you go! Another group of unsupervised little perverts ruining the name of the sport. And now you have a person totally closed minded about it and writing an article generalizing things because she doesn't know anything other than what she saw.

And this one statement I realy agree with her on: "Stand vigilantly and help to eradicate paintball abusers..."

By golly all of us better help her do that! You have to educate her and the others out there that we are against these hoodlums too. For our own selfish good as well as the Wildlife.

Write a patient sympathetic response to her. And condem these kids and disassociate yourselves from them. They are by no means "Paintball players". They are vandals wether they use a Paintball Marker or a Baseball Bat to do it.

[DJSOLID]

I replied. Her post is legitimate - her anger is justified. It's the idiots that were shooting animals with their markers that ought to be punished. If people keep this up, paintball is gonna be banned in every state. Mark my words - the paintball industry dosen't have the kind of powerful lobby dollars that the NRA does and all it takes is one pissed legislator to convince a few more and then the whole thing snowballs.

[Kaiser Bob]

I dont think unfounded generalizations like calling paintball the 'king of white trash sports' belong in a newspaper article. Her anger is certainly justified and vandalism is a real problem we have in the sport of paintball, but her comments were out of line. In my opinion it was bad journalism.

[DJSOLID]

It wasn't journalism, it was editorial comment. She expressed her feelings, and how can that be done incorrectly? The unfortunate part about this is that others may be feeling the same way in other places around the country.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by Kaiser Bob
I dont think unfounded generalizations like calling paintball the 'king of white trash sports' belong in a newspaper article.

Well then educate her gently on it.

But...I know for a fact Competitive Beer drinking and Jaleapeneo Pepper eating are the true king of redneck sports.

[Cliffio]

arent paintball oil based?

if they were water based then they would dry quickly
but ive shot things and the paint wont dry for weeks



holla
Cliff

[Hemlock86]

Bah!!

She a loser for putting down paintball and not knowing what its about! Its called IGNORANCE!

For the punk kids. Yes it was wrong for them to do that, but boys will be boys. If its not a harmless paintball gun, then next would be a pellet gun or a sling shoot. When i was in 6th grade, I took my Splatmaster and shot at birds and stuff....not like I ever hit one with that thing! hehe. But know that Im older, I wouldnt shoot an animal for no reason. Im not defending the kids, cause it doesnt help paintball. But Id rather see the swan shot with a marker then with a .22

peace

[LaW]

they used to be oil based a long time ago and would stain etc... now they are water based I'm pretty sure.

[dio91]

whoa

this chick seems to have somethin big stuck up her butt. she gotta chill out and look at this thing in its whole perspective. the sports great, everyone plays all the time without getting "severly" injured, just like in any other sport. and whats up with this white trash statement?

[LaW]

hey man you might have felt the same way in her situation. I mean thats a horrible thing that happend and if i was attached to the animals like that i'd have "a big stick up my butt" too....

[Cliffio]

she might be a little unreasonable

thats kinda like saying, well my grandma got hit buy a car so lets ban all cars

[LaW]

yeah but if someone gets killed by a car and it was an older person driving you could say "old people shouldn't be allowed to drive" I for one have uttered those words...

[Kaiser Bob]

Granted, it was an editorial and the statements were a matter of opinion, I still thought she was out of line. I mean she is poo-pooing on something that people make their living on, at least she could take 30 minutes to get a better understanding about it first.

And paint is water based.

[natedogg]

its becuase of articles like that that soccer moms and men who drive minivans dont allow their child to have their first little stingray or talon or tippman