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[shartley]

[Peach]

It's just publicity... It's also good to think about it this way, there are few enough of these paintball gun missuse incidents that they put them on the news. How many baseball bat beatings out of 100 would go on the news? 1, 2? 10 at most? But everytime someone does something bad with a paintballgun, it goes on the news, or it seems like 40-50% of the time it is. Now, In my mind this is a good think rather then having the mentalitly that, "Oh that happens everyday." Baseball/golf club beating happen daily, those are not put on because they are rare. When paintball gun shootings are out of the news spotlight and just a "normal" thing, then you need to worry about the image. I am not saying that it is a good thing for this to happen, but the rarity shows that it's not the chosen and most preferred gangbang weapon on the streets. It will never get that way in my mind, it's to expensive, they buy drugs with that. The positive side

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

i think one of the leading causes to the "paintball crimes" is wal-mart if they didnt sell the guns we would hear so much about kids shooting animals or drive bys...

[shartley]

Originally posted by Aliens-8-MyDad
i think one of the leading causes to the "paintball crimes" is wal-mart if they didnt sell the guns we would hear so much about kids shooting animals or drive bys...

[jaylock33]

I guess I should have clarified myself earlyier but oh well. When I said that they hurt the sport by doing this I didn't mean to imply that this has anything to actually playing paintball, but it is incedents like this that if occuring often enough will result in negative oppinions of paintball and hurt the sport in the long run.

[shade23]

I can't believe that video clip was dug up just now. It's roughly two to three years old and the idiots responible where caught and punished by the authorities. If my memory serves, I think one was tried as an adult even, for first degree assualt.
But its nice to see that the media is being so alarmist about the whole paintball affair (sarcasm here).

Speaking of positive media blurbs, the local media here just had a 10 minute spot on Alaskan competitive paintball games, and how team ELEMENT runs their field. It also covered the fact that the city of Anchorage is trying to get rid of the field only to replace it with a softball field (due to the fact that the land is leased from the city parks division).

[Lopy-slopy]

Originally posted by shartley

I don't think walmart is to blame, but I would have to say, if they didn't sell cheap markers, fewer idiots would get their hands on them and ther would be fewer drive by paintballings. Not many people would be willing to spend 100+ on paintball equipment from a real store just for jokes, but they will definatly spend 20 for a blade. But if they stoped selling them their would also be less noobs getting into the sport and making it grow. IMO wallmart gets more PB guns into more people's hands, the more people with PB guns the more people that will use them for bad

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

shartley i have to disagree vigorusly with you people wouldnt want to go through all the trouble of finding a paintball store or ordering one online, ussually these acts are random not planned, so they say "hmmm, i know! i can go walmart and buy a crapy gun to get back at my teachers car!" not "Hmmm let me find a paintball store, drive 20 minutes and buy a $100 gun casue they have nothing cheaper" they are idiots like u said, but i dont think they would accually go to a remote place so they can purchase a marker. they know of the convience of walmart, they are everywhere... now go disagre vigoursly with me again, i dont care your not gonna change my feelings.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Lopy-slopy


I don't think walmart is to blame, but I would have to say, if they didn't sell cheap markers, fewer idiots would get their hands on them and ther would be fewer drive by paintballings. Not many people would be willing to spend 100+ on paintball equipment from a real store just for jokes, but they will definatly spend 20 for a blade. But if they stoped selling them their would also be less noobs getting into the sport and making it grow. IMO wallmart gets more PB guns into more people's hands, the more people with PB guns the more people that will use them for bad

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

shartley you may think that people dont do that, but i know they do! ive seen it happen, friends ask to barrow my gun for wrong doing and i say no, so they drive up to walmart and buy a cheap one. its all about the convience, make a low end gun harder to get, and it should stop most of the acts of paintball crime

[shartley]

Originally posted by Aliens-8-MyDad
shartley i have to disagree vigorusly with you people wouldnt want to go through all the trouble of finding a paintball store or ordering one online, ussually these acts are random not planned, so they say "hmmm, i know! i can go walmart and buy a crapy gun to get back at my teachers car!" not "Hmmm let me find a paintball store, drive 20 minutes and buy a $100 gun casue they have nothing cheaper" they are idiots like u said, but i dont think they would accually go to a remote place so they can purchase a marker. they know of the convience of walmart, they are everywhere... now go disagre vigoursly with me again, i dont care your not gonna change my feelings.

[shartley]

Originally posted by Aliens-8-MyDad
shartley you may think that people dont do that, but i know they do! ive seen it happen, friends ask to barrow my gun for wrong doing and i say no, so they drive up to walmart and buy a cheap one. its all about the convience, make a low end gun harder to get, and it should stop most of the acts of paintball crime

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

i belive the blame needs to be placed on the idiots that do it and walmart for making the Low end markers readily availible. my friends are stupid sometimes and i cant stop them, though i do not condone there actions it is not going to end my friendship with them.

[bryceeden]

I think that the best, although not cheapest, is for local paintball shops to offer a reward for info leading to the prosicution of the guilty party. Off the subject I also think that showing the public paintball in its true form does alot. I have a "float" that is a speed ball field surrounded in netting and glass that I put in local parades with people playing "paintball"(they play without paintballs, just shoot HPA and the refs call what look like they would have been hits) it seems like a stupid idea, but it has done alot for paintballs image in my area. The city counsel and mayor are even holding a city sponsored torny in the park( they have borrowed a supair field and netting). This type of thing is exactly what paintball needs, and it can be done. That way when the idiots come out they are over looked just like if it was baseball or hockey.