Paintball letter

[Woogie12]

I wrote a letter to abcnews.com about one of their articles on paintball. I was wondering what you guys thought. Here's the article: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/L..._040114-1.html

[badinfo]

Well, they seem to have pulled the article.
Your letter was well written, got the point across without sounding angry. Well done.

[phantomhitman]

the article is still up. it includes the incident in raleigh also that happen a couple of weeks back.

[Kevmaster]

yeh, keep us updated on that affair. Im in DUrham and a former field owner (well..manager) and know soem of the field owners. We could prolly fight a resolution pretty hard if the raleigh legislature came down the way the first N&O article said it would. however, im at Duke and in my little bubble and don't know much about the happenings of raeligh

good letter though

[paint magnet]

They claim "paintballs are fired at up to 300 fps, as fast as some bullets"

What kind of bullet fires at 300 fps!?!

Even .22 bullets with only primers (no powder whatsoever) hover around 500 fps.

[paint magnet]

By the way, the fool that shot into a crowd and put out one girl's eye (and now goes around preaching about how dangerous paintball is) should have been charged with Assault & Battery with intent to cause serious bodily injury...and it would not have bothered me one bit if someone in the crowd had thought he was shooting a firearm, pulled out their own gun and dropped the hammer on him.

[tyrion2323]

woogie, what's the address that you emailed to them? I can't find a contact button.

[Woogie12]

I'm emailing it here:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abcmail_news.html

To Good Morning America because I believe they're the ones who showed the story.

[RingOfScale]

you guys shouldn't be so hard on people who dont know much about paintball ... i know u were being nice in the letter and all, and letting em know its not that bad is a good idea ... but just keep in mind, they werent really saying stuff that bad about paintball, and when they mentioned all the injuries they are least saying it was from people playing illegally and not at fields etc ... its not like they were making it sound like all paintball is horribly dangerous

[Woogie12]

I know this, but the people who don't play, especially parents, don't know the difference. After watching that or reading that article, most parents won't let their kids play.

[badinfo]

OK, article was there when I checked again, musta been down earlier. It wasnt as bad as it could be but yeah, its not positive towards the game.