Well, one of my friends just bought a new Spyder Imagine and was shooting it for the second or third time, when it jammed and he looked down the barrel, neither him or any of his friends wearing a mask, and it went off and shot out his left eye. There is a chance he can get partial vision back in about a year, but only with surgery.
Of course I feel awful about this, and especially because everyone at school asks about his eye and he always replies that it got shot out with a paintball gun. Naturally, to the non playing crowd and the players who don't know much (namely about 900 of them), you can see how this sounds. Every teacher also seems to comment on how dangerous paintball is and how stupid it is.
Like I said I feel bad about this, but there's more. The day before it happened, (day before halloween), he said he was going to go out and shoot houses and trick or treaters and cop cars on halloween like he had done the year before. Of course I told him not to do that because "you'll shoot someone's eye out" and get paintball banned and give it a bad reputation. I didn't expect that he would shoot out his own eye. Do you think he deserved it? I have very little doubt that he would not have shot trick or treaters and houses or that he has learned his lesson. Now not only is one of my friends missing an eye, but nearly the whole school is afraid of playing paintball and comments on how stupid it is.
Of course I feel awful about this, and especially because everyone at school asks about his eye and he always replies that it got shot out with a paintball gun. Naturally, to the non playing crowd and the players who don't know much (namely about 900 of them), you can see how this sounds. Every teacher also seems to comment on how dangerous paintball is and how stupid it is.
Like I said I feel bad about this, but there's more. The day before it happened, (day before halloween), he said he was going to go out and shoot houses and trick or treaters and cop cars on halloween like he had done the year before. Of course I told him not to do that because "you'll shoot someone's eye out" and get paintball banned and give it a bad reputation. I didn't expect that he would shoot out his own eye. Do you think he deserved it? I have very little doubt that he would not have shot trick or treaters and houses or that he has learned his lesson. Now not only is one of my friends missing an eye, but nearly the whole school is afraid of playing paintball and comments on how stupid it is.
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