IMPORTANT!: proposal to BAN Paintball sales to minors in NJ

[GatoLoco]

http://nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1058601983145811.xml

[NJPaint]

Kevin Smith is my friend... He used to work at a paintball shop....

[FreakBaller12]

how is paintball ever going to shake this bad image it has

[jungleguy]

to some extent, id have to agree with the proposal.

it would decrease the drive-by's.
which is really mostly what gives paintball a bad rap.

i feel bad for the kids who really want to play but cant, coz theyre not tall enough to ride.

what will they do with the young guns who already
bought the markers? will they still be allowed to play?

man...

[FreakBaller12]

hey hey hey!
i am a yougn gun 14 and i just got my emag if paintball got banned i woudl crawl up in a corner and cry
i dont have the funds to go to depot or somehwere when i want to play

[SIGSays]

how would it reduce drive buys idiot? i bet most people that do it are over 18 anyway... and cars???

[Farlow]

Lets see kids drive by and smash mailboxes with baseball bats, lets outlaw them from playing baseball until the 18. Typical answer from politics. No personal accountability or parents watching their kids. A few people doing something wrong and every one pays for it. Now they want to know why the malls are packed every weekend with kids running around. If they keep stopping them from doing stuff that is what happens. This opinion coming from a 33 year old who has played outlaw paintball since he was 15.

[Dark Cloud]

A lot of these kids who are shooting neighbors houses, pets, streetsigns, etc and the ones who arent as serious about the sport. They think its okay if they go around shooting other peoples' property. When infact, they are giving people more and more reasons to ban paintball for example.

Safety comes first in paintball. I've heard that said several times at local fields. All of these accidents happen when someone does something foolish or just out right stupid. If everyone was more responsible and careful, we wouldn't have as many problems like this.

[Farlow]

Lets see kids drive by and smash mailboxes with baseball bats, lets outlaw them from playing baseball until the 18. Typical answer from politics. No personal accountability or parents watching their kids. A few people doing something wrong and every one pays for it. Now they want to know why the malls are packed every weekend with kids running around. If they keep stopping them from doing stuff that is what happens. This opinion coming from a 33 year old who has played outlaw paintball since he was 15.

[i_baked_cookies]

well this sucks... if congress passes her bill (which would outlaw the sales of pb guns to minors and would almost completely eliminate private woods play), then paintball would take a big hit.

[space_weazel_45]

i propose a non afiliated ninja squad who finds the sorts of people who go out looking to be destructive with PB equipment and makes them "DISAPPEAR" *wink*wink* *nod*nod*

hehehehehehehehehehhehehehee mwahahahahhaha....okimdone!

[Athius]

Well in my opinion the thing that many people "hate" or are against paintball is because well it supposedly "encorage kids to violence" and well another thing is that it trains u for combat even though fightin with markers and with firearms are 2 diferent things. And well politicians are always with that cr@p about cleanin the streets of violence and blah blah blah.

But anyway if people think paintball should be banned because encourage kids to violence or use weapons well then thay have to ban martial arts, boxing, fencing or any kind of sports that has to do with weapons and fightin.

Like George Carlin says "United States has a strange culture they ban toy guns and they are keepin the real ones!"

[mjs1217]

wait, this is the same kevin smith who directed and costarred in every single jay and silent bob movie with the exception of dogma? is he okay??

[GatoLoco]

I especially love how our senator referred to them as "weapons"

[Benfica4ever]

I hate this peopele who just judge the sport just because they are paintball GUNS. They know nothin about it, they just think that we are all littke imature people who go around shooting peoples property.t They probably just think we dont wear masks or anything.

Damn strereotypes