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Germany aims to kill Paintball

Started by Syt, May 07, 2009, 10:50:05 AM

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Malthus

Quote from: AnchorClanker on May 12, 2009, 12:19:25 PM
This strikes me as pretty lame.  Boys will be boys, and I'd rather they play around with paintball guns than the real thing.  I fail to understand the supposed linkage between paintballers and the homicidal dorks that actually kill people.

They were always the last to be chosen for a team.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

DontSayBanana

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Quote from: AnchorClanker on May 12, 2009, 12:19:25 PM
This strikes me as pretty lame.  Boys will be boys, and I'd rather they play around with paintball guns than the real thing.  I fail to understand the supposed linkage between paintballers and the homicidal dorks that actually kill people.

Politicians don't often let facts get in the way of their populist stunts, Ank. ;)

It's taken over a decade and Jack Thompson's disbarment to shed the myth that video games have been responsible for school shootings in the US, and still some elements like to try to push that nonexistent linkage.
Experience bij!

Zanza

They dropped the ban on paintball and lasergames in the final draft of the law.