Inside Edition TV show takes a pot-shot at paintball

[Tyger]

http://www.webdogradio.us/video/oldschool/InsideEdition.wmv

I'm updating the site right now, and there's a higher res. version on the site (http://www.webdogradio.us/video/oldschool). I'll give you a glimpse. The OPENING LINE was "New concerns about a violent shooting game"... Aired TODAY on inside edition.

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-Tyger (Who's server can take the flood if everyone on PB Nation gets wind of this...)

[Blazestorm]

My server can ^_^

*watching now*

It's interesting, the fact is that they concentrate on the injuries. 100 people injured by paintballs a month. a.) I find that hard to believe and b.) they don't compare it to other major sports. I was reading some statistics when I first started, you're more likely to get injured walking down the street then you are playing at a confirmed arena (One that has been checked out and deemed safe to play at)

[Thermus]

I really don't think it was all that unfair to the sport. The fact is, there HAS to be restricitons placed on paintball guns because some younger people can't handle the responsiblity. It shouldn't be easy for a 12 year old to obtain an item that can inflict pain from a distance on other people.

The segment wasn't knocking paintball in arenas and at feilds, and thats all we care about anyway, correct?

[Tyger]

Personally, I'm not sure what to make of it. one hand, they don't slam the "Sport", on the other, they still make it appear that we're doing violent things. It's not really said that the kids that do drive-bys are vandals, not players of paintball. That and all the violence speak (players wear body armor, and the like)

It's not a major blow, but I thought we got over this in the 80's.

-Tyger

[Blazestorm]

If they're going to talk about injuries caused by paintball-guns, why don't they talk about baseball bats. I'm pretty sure you don't have to be 18 to purchase a bat to play baseball in your backyard. I'd like to see how many people are injured by baseball bats (Not the sport of baseball).

I do think it is an unfair representation of paintball. People think that paintball is now this evil violent thing that kids do.

[ProX9]

jeese did they say 100 people in a month? omg ban paintball. better yet the people who commit the crimes just let them off the hook, with 3 weekends of time. then finally sue the paintball gun companies because stupid parents cant control their kids and stupid people with cant control themselves. The language they use is terrible, violent war game, i can understand war games but "violent" come on use something like fast paced or aggresive instead. I love how they also say people are playing paintball on the streets as a generalization for every person who plays off the field. shooting innocent people on the streets also shouldnt be referred to as playing paintball, since its not a game its a crime. Finally at the end just to inform people that it is safe they say paintball fields require safety gear and they dont say there are literally no injuries at the fields. but if anything gets on the news it will most likely be negative since all they have to do is change a few wordings and bam paintball is the antichrist to all who dont have 30 seconds to learn the truth.

[Chipper]

jeese did they say 100 people in a month? omg ban paintball. better yet the people who commit the crimes just let them off the hook, with 3 weekends of time. then finally sue the paintball gun companies because stupid parents cant control their kids and stupid people with cant control themselves. The language they use is terrible, violent war game, i can understand war games but "violent" come on use something like fast paced or aggresive instead. I love how they also say people are playing paintball on the streets as a generalization for every person who plays off the field. shooting innocent people on the streets also shouldnt be referred to as playing paintball, since its not a game its a crime. Finally at the end just to inform people that it is safe they say paintball fields require safety gear and they dont say there are literally no injuries at the fields. but if anything gets on the news it will most likely be negative since all they have to do is change a few wordings and bam paintball is the antichrist to all who dont have 30 seconds to learn the truth.

I'm guessing that what you said is true but I only read the first sentence. I think that this is just going to keep some parents from going to Wally World and buying a cheapo paintball gun for their 12 year old.

100 injurys per month? I'm calling BS! I think they made a typo and ment to put 10. Also, probably 1000 people get hurt per month playing football or some other true contact sport.

[cockermongol]

I wouldn't doubt 100 injuries a month because they aren't talking only about injuries on the field, they are talking about assaults on innocent bystanders. A couple of stupid teenagers can peg 10 people in one night easily, and you have to remember that millions of people play paintball and that means that there are millions of paintball markers in circulation...

[_tMAN]

Oh I'm sure 100 a month is true, but do they count sprained ankles, knee injuries, wrist injuries, broken arms in with eye injuries? If they did I think foorball would have about 1000 a month. Just stupid of them to show the videos of the drive-bys. Although at the end she did say it was a safe sport when played correctly

[WenULiVeUdiE]

100 injurys per month? I'm calling BS! I think they made a typo and ment to put 10. Also, probably 1000 people get hurt per month playing football or some other true contact sport.

I'm thinking 100 injuries a day in the high season, or at least close to it.
I'm somewhat happy they aired this. Maybe some parents will take away the immature 12 year old's markers in hope that they are saving someone's eyesight. Then again I'm a little disgruntled at some of the things they say like " played on the streets" or " violent". Video games are much more violent and many more kids play them then play paintball. People these days...

[titan aresta]

I really don't see why some of you think that 100 eye injuries per month is too high a number. This translates to 1200 injuries per year. Using IE's number of 8 million players, we end up with an eye injury rate of 0.015%.
I'd say that 100 injuries per month is probably a bit low...

[FSU_Paintball]

OK, the intro piece was HORRIBLE, but the report wasn't as bad as I'd feared.

What I have a problem with is that they called it such a growing epidemic, and that paintball injuries have DOUBLED in recent years (I'll bet the number of pb gun owners has at least QUARDRUPLED). They also didn't mention that it's not people at fields who get injured - it's the victims of jerkoffs who do drive-bys.

I am happy that they mentioned that all people at fields are required to wear proper protection.

[Chris42050]

I havent watched the video and dont plan too. I have given up on television news. Its all sensationalism. Whatever sells. A long time ago, before I was born there was pride and honor for commentators and news organizations to report the truth and not put this kind of garbage on the news. Now they just put on whatever sells.

[WickeDKlowN]

If you listen to it, they said 100 people are treated for EYE related paintball injuries.Not just injuries in general. I'm gonna have to call BS and say the guy just pulled that number out his ***.

Also, I don't really see a problem with the video. They arn't atticking the sport, just the stupid f's that do drive-by's and whatnot.

[tony3]

I don't see anything wrong with that. 100 sounds about right, think about what they said in the article. Wasn't it like 1 and a half billion paintballs are fired a year? And 100 hit people in the eye. Pretty good odds if you ask me.