Total paintball ban in Baltimore

[FeelTheRT]

old old news

its already been banned weeks ago.

My dad was acutally at one of the hearings a few months back. He did what he could i guess.

[Blazingace]

The "tangent" that I went off on is the the same people that want to ban Paintball are the same type of people that don't like my airport. We are not talking about Newark international in Trenton. We are talking about a few flights using smaller planes like EMB-145 regional Jets and 737's ,not 767s, Airbus 340s or 777s. The airport has been there for decades and was always a part of the community. Now the rich Holier-than-thou people have moved in in the last 5 years. Aviation is safer than driving, walking, riding a bike, you name it.


It is this same mentality that wants to ban paintball. Punish the law abiding citizen that lives in the city because law abiding citizens assault people with there guns and vandalize. But whether you are a law abiding citizen or someone that shoots old people to get your jollies doesn't make a difference to these people. If you punish the law breakers, the ones that do the crimes with the guns instead of everybody that has a PB gun that is OK. These type of "feel good" laws hurt the good people more than the criminals. If someone really wanted to vandalize or shoot someone in the city with a PB gun, would a ban in the city really help? 99% of the people that own PB guns are good, upright citizens. Why should they be punished along with the 1%? This is a battle that we will have to go though time and again if we don't take these people seriously. Once they put one law on the books watch out because the floodgates will open and that will be that. We will be like Australia, have to turn our guns in at night, only play in designated areas and really high performance guns will be outlawed entirely. Do you want to be lableled a criminal just because you play paintball? I don't!!!!! I hunt, I shoot recreationally, I fly and I play paintball. All the things I like to do are LABELED as antisocial and violent and dangerous. To some people I am personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, Because I own a GUN!!!!!!! If you don't belong to the NRA or hunt or shoot you don't knowwhat it is like. The Olympic shooting teams of England and Australia can't practice their sport in their own COUNTRY. Think about it.

[aaron_mag]

Originally posted by hitech


I'll give you that. And I don't want to hijack his thread so...I'll stop.

Neither do I. Especially since now we have people going into soy milk, and pro choice. Not even going to touch those.....but I do want to say that has it occured to you people talking about those darn liberals that paintball attracts a very diverse group of people?:)

[LittMag]

Originally posted by FeelTheRT
old old news

its already been banned weeks ago.

My dad was acutally at one of the hearings a few months back. He did what he could i guess.

What exactly happened? I read that they had proposed to rewrite it "The committee seemed set to revise the legistlation to avoid adversely affecting legitimate paintball players, so score one for Paintball today." Please clarify your statement FeelTheRT

[FalconGuy016]

Paintball was actually BANNED?? I really didnt think that could work out... we should get at least a million out of the 7 million paintball players to email them about it. That would be cool to overload their servers :)

Now that I think about it though, probably nothing could stop them.

Baltimore is pretty much the most liberal city in the US.

Does anyone know where I can read about this ban?