Missouri Bin Laden Scenario! (with info this time!!)

[OldSchoolMag]

Skoad - Sorry for "getting all political" in your post. I realize you were just trying to tell us about a game, and, would it not have been related to what it is related to, I probably would have attended.

Shartley - I agree with you in all aspects. Very well put.

Snooky - Look, I want paintball to gain members just as much as the next guy, but not off the explotation of people's emotions regarding NOT past but current deaths and tragedies. This is similar to an aviation club holding a "Pearl Harbor Fly-A-Thon" a week after it happened. Sure, they might get people to join the club, but would it really benifit them in the long run? No, just like this will not benifit us. Granted, the prices are lower, so people MAY be more inclined to come, but the subject matter will steer most away. Snooky, what we're (Shartley and I) trying to say is that we don't want people to join paintball because they felt affected by Bin Ladin and thought it would be cool to go to some field and shoot him with a paintball gun. You're views are leading you in circles.

OSM

P.S. - Sorry about getting all political again, Skoad.

[media]

No one has mentioned the most serious issue here! The scenario players on the Al Qeda/taliban side will have turbans and robe like clothing which deflect paintballs. That's cheating!

Seriously though, if the field owner wants to do this scenario, he/she will probably discover quite a few people are uncomfortable with the idea. I personally wouldn't attend a scenario like this. The media might percieve this kind of event as "a bunch of rednecks playing an anti-muslim game".

If a bunch of mostly white paintball players got together to do a "blackhawk down" scenario and half the players made themselves look black, it wouldn't go down to well with the public in general. It would have racism written all over it. The Bin Laden scenario would come off the same way since it would seem to make all muslim or middle easterners out to be "bad guys".

You'd think they would at least wait until Osama gets what he deserves (a well placed bomb or bullet) before even considering a scenario about him.

[Snooky]

says itll take 7 hours. i don't think im gonna make it. anyway have fun there.

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

shartley- i think you should put the disclamer in your sig:

i'm not upset, just stating my opinions

ok now for my rant. personally i think it's very distasteful. would i go if i could? no. does it matter what i believe? not really. i'm jsut one kid that doesn't live anywhere near this "event". would anything like that occur over hear(i live in ny)? probably not. am i offended? no. then again, i didn't lose anyone important to me on 9/11. those that are offended, might take some action to let those holding this know. i'm just going to do what i always try to do, and mind my own business. but in the end, it doesn't have anything to do with me.

on the issue of bringing people into the sport. honestly, let them run whatever scenerio they feel is needed. idon't care. i play paintball. i love paintball. i don't need to be convinced on how paintball is a safe and great sport. i already know. do i want more people to play, of course. is it really my fight to get all these liberal, riminal loving, close-minded, freedom hating idiots to look at paintball as nothing but the great sport that it is? not remotely. sure i'd love to see paintball to grow and be publically seen as a common thing. but really would that have any affect on me? i seriously doubt it. i seriously doubt taht there's ever going to be any one or series of things that can get paintball restriced or perminately banned from this country. it's just not going to happen, it's to big now. so really, i have nothing to worry about. and i know there is nothing that's going to make me look at paintball as a bad or unsafe sport. so in either case, i/we are really not affected.

i know that it seems like i'm a jerk. i just fail to see how concerning myself about things that don't have anything to do with me, serves a purpose. there's just no point. that doesn't mean i don't try to get people into the sport. believe me, i don't think there's a day that goes by that i don't ask someone to play some paintball. if someone asks me about paintball, they will hear nothing but praise. if something occurs that maybe needs attention that i can have an affect on, then yeah, i will do whatever needs to be done. but some yahoo holds a scenerio that i won't/can't condone out 2000 miles from me(or whatever the distance), don't expect me to do anything but just sit here and cruise AO some more. i'm done. i think i'm going to get some cinnimon toast crunch.