“paintball”. This page must be getting popular.

I am sorry about your attack. I have been playing paintball for 20 years and only

been hurt once when an idiot on the field had his air compression set double the allowable pressure. It hit me square on the top of my

head while I was reloading and knocked me out cold. They said I was out for almost three minutes. The idiot who hit me of course got

caught and was banned from that field for life.

It is a shame some idiot would do something like to you. A paintball marker is for

a paintball field and is to be shot at people who have agreed to participate. To use it for any their purpose not only puts peoples

health at risk, but makes a bad name for a truly enjoyable sport.

Sorry, I do not agree with the comments of the person calling

for regulation and registration. We have too much government involvement in our lives as it is. it is already a crime to hurt someone.

Those laws need to be enforced, which they are not – that is the problem, not an inanimate object.

I hope that you do not hold

this attack against all paintball players. We are for most part a polite crowd.

Ed

wound’ on google. wanted to see if anyone got one worse than mine today :P

Mine hit nearly point blank in the hand, shredding the

skin of and also cutting the perimeter of the impact. And yes, it hurt :P

But sorry to hear about your drive-by incident, I doubt

it was a pleasant experience for you or your wife.

there looking to use paintball supplies to hurt people. As usual, some bad apples can spoil it for everyone. However, I would like to

say that the sport has evolved beyond just a pass time. There are professional leagues and it has become a way for people to become

successful in a sport and turn professional. As in any sport, these skills can be learned at young ages and with proper supervision and

training the person could eventually be a professional athelete in a growing extreme sport. It is very difficult to keep this sport

alive and unfortunately if communities start registry’s it would discourage many people from the sport. In fact a registy would be

expensive and difficult to administer and enforce. The money could be better spent raising awareness on the dangers of using equipment

in public areas. Stiff laws or penalties limiting the ability to obtain a drivers license if caught abusing a paintball marker may be a

great deterrent. Possibly rewards for reporting those abusing the paintball markers. Lists of people filling air tanks could also be

kept for enforcement agencies to track down abusers. These are just some ideas to think about.

one, but its a depressing fact. A few months back a similer incedent happend to me on my way home from work, it was heart breaking to

think someone could sink to such a cowardly low. Realizing the contradiction of me playing paintball while still feeling outraged at

getting shot must seem stupid but I am a responsable person and I only play against people who follow strict rules, regulations and

saftey procedures.

Over the last few weeks I have been working within my community to have our local athority put

restrictions on the purchase of a paintball gun (it’s not a marker). The main goal is to implace an age restriction of 18 (right now you

only have too be 10) I would also like to see some form of registry as would be done with a real firearm.

Its great that you

wrote about this for all to see and I hope that others will take action to keep their communitys safe from this dangerous trend.

I don’t feel so bad for spending most of my time playing video game versions of paintball.

my name’s matthew, and i too found your page with google looking for “paintball wound”.

yours was the first search

result!

anyhows, since you expressed some curiosity about those motivated to see a paintball wound, i felt qualified to shed a

little light!

i began looking for paintball injuries only after having played paintball for years. my normally intellectual

friends and i would jump into the woods and shift into predator mode for a few hours… step outside our own reality for a bit!

so as the years flew by, i became a papa and my son korben, who’s seven, wants to play with me. i went online in order to find

photographic evidence of the consequences of irresponsible paintball behavior.

much to my amazement and embarrassment, the

majority of paintball wounds online are there as testimony to an attack by brain-damaged “kids” who can’t comprehend the terror and

anguish a simple painball hit will create when suffered out of context.

if you have done any research on the subject pf drive-by

paintball attacks, i’m sure you realize how lucky you are with no permanent eye or ear damage from the attack.

and it may be

worth noting that i have personally received gnarlier hits than yours. very close-range hits on bare legs and arms can actually break the

skin and sting QUITE A BIT. there art thou happy!

well i hope you have better paintball experiences from this moment onward. the

game played well can be huge fun. lets just hope the stupid among us wise up sooner than later, eh?

matthew