Paintball just on good morning america

[Automaggin2]

They had a thing on how teens can be really cruel, and how they video tape there cruelty. they showed some teens shooting some alaskan natives with paintball guns.

[jaylock33]

Ya that happened a while ago but the sad thing is its idiots like those kids that hurt the sport.

[SIGSays]

that is pretty sad... but i kind of see why they do it... but it's still wrong... they should be beat

[shartley]

[JEDI]

Shartley some times you really impress me. Its great how Network news will dig up bad things to show, randomly, however you'd never see a random 2 minute blurb on some kids having fun at a local PB feild. I mean I obviously know why they show what they show, but its just rediculous.

[xadamx]

in alaska?! we gotta save doc nickle!!

[doc_Zox]

Sarah Brady and the Million Mom March has not gone away

They want to emasculate any "gun" sport

[Brak]

i totally agree with shartley, he hit the nail on the head right there

[boggerman]

We had an incident of "drive-by paintballing" here not long ago where a couple of teen aged kids shot a little girl and a police officer (<--there's a bright idea ) through the open window of his cruiser. The local media called a buddy of mine who owns a paintball business for his input. He said the reporter seemed to keep an open mind and actually listen to what he had to say. My thought was this: when there is a hit and run accident, do the reporters call the Ford dealer? If there is a shooting, do they call the Sportsman's Warehouse? If there is a stabbing, do they call Cutlery USA? If there is grafiti on the walls, do they call Krylon?
NO!
The point is, shartley was dead on.

[EnderWigginPballin]

Originally posted by JEDI
Its great how Network news will dig up bad things to show, randomly, however you'd never see a random 2 minute blurb on some kids having fun at a local PB feild. I mean I obviously know why they show what they show, but its just rediculous.

That's because covering something like a paintball walk on day would be utterly pointless, as it's not news, and it's a weak feature story because most people wouldn't find it interesting.

The problem with broadcast journalism is the time limit. The big Networks would never show something like that during a news broadcast because all they have is like a half an hour to go over the real NEWS. They don't have time for cute little fatures.

In print journalism, no one would care about the walk-ons, it would be better to cover a local tournament of some sort, or to interview a local team that's moving up to a higher level of competition.

the reason they do show the bad stuff is basic human nature... wasn't it in "stranger in a strange land" that the main character noted that the main part of our humor consists of people getting hurt? Everyone wants to hear the bad stuff, it's more interesting.

[Teen]

years ago, me and a couple of my friends were um out having fun playing baseball with windows, and when the cops caught us the one kids backpack that was open(it did have the bat in it but he threw it). They were like " so guys weres the paintball gun!" and they kept asking us were it was and i finally said "yea i have a paintball gun" then they wanted to know where it was at and i told them..." at my house" lol. o yea a paintball is gonna put a 7 inch diameter whole in a doublepain window, one of those windows with wires that run through it, made a cool sound when i hit it. anyways they thought we were using paintball guns because people at that time were riding around and doing drive-by shootings with frozen paintballs. the shot through an old ladies window and hit her in the head. she had to go to the hospital.
o yea, this was back when i was a little juvanile delinquent. lol

[Ov3rmind]

Originally posted by Teen
years ago, me and a couple of my friends were um out having fun playing baseball with windows, and when the cops caught us the one kids backpack that was open(it did have the bat in it but he threw it). They were like " so guys weres the paintball gun!" and they kept asking us were it was and i finally said "yea i have a paintball gun" then they wanted to know where it was at and i told them..." at my house" lol. o yea a paintball is gonna put a 7 inch diameter whole in a doublepain window, one of those windows with wires that run through it, made a cool sound when i hit it. anyways they thought we were using paintball guns because people at that time were riding around and doing drive-by shootings with frozen paintballs. the shot through an old ladies window and hit her in the head. she had to go to the hospital.
o yea, this was back when i was a little juvanile delinquent. lol

Hm, I vote "not cool".

[magsRus]

Yeah but you see they will ban paintball if so many more incidents of shootings keep popping up. But wait they wont banned baseball when people get the crap beatin out of them with bats..or in some peoples cases decide to break windows.

[Lopy-slopy]

It's because baseball is more generaly excepted as a sport. People can clearly tell the differnce between some kid's playing a game of baseball and some kids beating a guy with a bat. People see a game of paintball and see us shooting each other with guns for fun. Then they see vid's of people shooting people on the street for fun. Scince they arn't exposed to paintball to much they think, that's paintball. They are still using the marker the way it's supposed to be used(point a person, shoot person) there just being jackasses.

[Pvt.Opium]

Kids like that give Paintball a bad name......Sport wont go far if these type of things keep occuring. I just hope more people have more common sense...