Sickening Tv broadcast....

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couldnt help myself, Wrote GMA...letter below

I really wish that you would have included some more positive statistics in your segment "Off-Field Paintball Injuries on the Rise".

Other than the quick comment made while talking to the owner of Cousins paintball stating "Cousins paintball claims to not having one eye injury at their facility" you failed to mention that statisticaly paintball is safer than golf and bowling when the rules are followed, yes that is correct......golf and bowling.
you see for every 100 players of each of those sports there are less injurys reported for paintball than any others.

I urge you to either make a comment regarding this subject or at the least allow a representative of the sport to have more airtime to explain to parents what they can do to help prevent the same kind of incidences that happened to the young man in North Carolina and to the young lady in the segment.

if your segment was really an effort to help educate parents I feel this would be the proper steps to follow,

Thank you for you time,

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Originally posted by Load SM5
So does that mean baseball is an unsafe sport because people get beaten to death by bats fairly often?

Couldn't have said it better myself

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bigger problems

I do not think the press coverage will really have any effect. If anything, it will draw more people. Face it, people are shooting eachother with guns, its going to get some bad press. Call it what you want (marker), but its a gun. I have been playing a long time and I am still not totally convinced it is a true sport. Actually, I am surprised more people are not injured. Every field I go to I will always see a kid trying to clean a gun with the tank attached and the barrel plug out.

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Yes the world is full of stupid people. I don't see how they can call paintball dangerous if all saftey precautions are followed. The sport can't help it if so stupid person takes his mask off in the middle of the game to clean it or so stupid bunch of kids drive around and shoot people. They should be punished not people that abuse the responsiblity of a paintball gun. Part of the problem to is miseducation. Joe Smoes kid is cleaning his gun with the tank on and a hopper full of paint because no one told him he couldn't and he didn't read the directions. If we want better press we, and by that I mean the responsible paintball players, need to take some action. It could be having a tech class on paintball saftey when you purchase you marker, or sponser a reduced entry tournament where to have to participate is a paintball saftey lesson or maker matinence. Something should be set up where someone can be conntacted in the event that some stupid kids get it in thier head that they wanna do drive by paintballing we as a whole can say that we don't condon thier actions. We have to be proactive if we want to gain a better view as a safe sport. Numbers should be compiled that show sports injuries and the severity of the injuys when saftey is followed in all sports. I bet hands down paintball would be on the bottom of the list. Seriously I have heard of more broken bones from people falling in paintball then eye injuries. And parents to play a major problem in paintball even though they my not agree with the problems it causes. If you think about it how many kids have you seen at your feild that look to be about 12 and under. I went to a customer aperciation day and there must have been 30 out of a 150 under the age of 12. By parents putting a gun in a kids hands they are asking for trouble. I doubt most of them didn't sit down and show little Billy about saftey and matinence. Well thats my thoughs. Sorry for the quick end I was getting pissed. Also I heard they are trying to make paintballl illegal in NY does anyone know if this is true cause if it is I am writing some people.