Germany Drops Paintball Ban Proposal

"is generally not played in military fatigues like in other countries."

Yeah, because everyone knows that wearing camo makes you more likely to go out and kill someone   I'm glad they decided not to ban this, but then I saw at the bottom they're going to go more for "enhancements" to existing gun control laws.  *sigh*  Why can't they just admit that crazy people are going to break any law they pass and kill people and there's nothing they can do to stop it?  You can't stop murders by passing a bunch of laws that criminals will only break.  They're criminals...that's what they do.  They plan on killing a bunch of people; do you actually think they're going to be afraid of a gun law, or decide against it because they can't get "training" from playing paintball?  The shooter isn't afraid on going to jail because in their mind they've probably got it planned out that they're going to die in a hail of gunfire.  If these laws actually work, then it's a shame Germany didn't ban violent video games and paintball before Hitler came into power.  It's a shame Rome didn't ban guns, or else all those Vandals wouldn't have been knocking down their doors.  Yeah, ban everything because objects cause people to kill.   

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Old people should stop telling war stories. They might evoke young people that no one likes and everyone picks on for being gay to pick up a gun and kill ten or more people on the lunch yard.

Politicians keep the peace. They don't solve problems. If the actual problems of society were solved, that would be labeled anarchy, communist, fascist, or radical. No no no.....

Blame something to shut everyone up. Then move on.

At least they're doing something on the more reasonable side of the spectrum, and not taking away harmless fun.  Well, except for those welts after a day of paintball.  Not so harmless. 

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My only questions: If they end up raising the age for gun control:

A: How will that effect those who would now be carrying illegal guns?

B: How long until you have to be dead to own a gun?

Conservatives needed a scapegoat to shift blame from guns to young people. Media followed "argumentation". Arguments of reason were ignored - or worse. Most people of the older generation agreed with the politicians that "violent games" need to be banned.

Mission accomplished!

They've been doing it since the beginning of this year, they will continue with that "strategy" until the end of the election period. Reasoning pointless, it's all about money and power - no lobby means no mercy.

ZAR.

The government, however, plans to conduct an enquiry to assess whether paintball regulations should be tightened by increasing age limits and other measures,

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The sport is banned for those younger than 18,

Right. Either someone has no clue what he's talking about or adults will no longer be adults.

Stigma-Videospiele has more about this (but in German) :

http://stigma-videospiele.de/wordpress/?p=1740

http://stigma-videospiele.de/wordpress/?p=1742

Instead, German officials plan to pursue enhancements to existing gun control laws.

As they should.

They...they're doing something that makes sense...

"HEY! LISTEN!"

Premature indeed. Considering the sources for the story (BBC and that other one) never said it was banned, only that it was under consideration.

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