Germany moves to outlaw paintball

[Posteritatis]

Source: BBC News

The German government says it plans to ban combat games such as paintball, in response to a recent school shooting.

The new measures being proposed to parliament also include tighter gun control rules and give officials the right to conduct checks on gun owners.

Sixteen people, including the gunman, were killed in the shooting at a school in southern Germany in March.

Relatives of the victims say the new measures do not go far enough.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8041320.stm

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Gotta love dragnet scapegoating.

[realisticphish]

1. wow

and here I thought we murkins had a monopoly on astoundingly misplaced reactionism

[Posteritatis]

2. That resource has an *inexhaustible* supply! (nt)

[Hoopla Phil]

3. This just in: Germany to ban simultaneous extension of index finger and thumb!

[aviationpm]

4. Maybe they should ban automobiles...

They kill far more people.

[konnichi wa]

9. When the brakes on the car quit working, buy a louder horn.

:silly:

[progdonkey]

5. verdammte Scheisse!

Are they going to ban track and field to combat purse snatching? Will they close gyms to prevent people from building muscles they could use against other people?

This is exactly the same as the idiotic reactions you get against video games whenever someone goes nuts: you have people who've clearly never played the games (and therefore have no idea how unlike the real thing they are) treating them as though they're training simulators. (Hell, I remember someone here on DU once idiotically told me he/she considered first person shooter games "Columbine trainers," as though a keyboard and mouse are in any way similar to a TEC-9.)

I've played paintball; I've shot M-16s. They're not the same at all. And any of the tactical similarities between a paintball game and an actual gun fight can be found in a game of capture the flag.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. let's play tag instead

cheaper and the state of the economy demands watching our wallets anyway

[twitomy]

7. Cant do that...

It might humiliate the person "tagged" or the person who just cant tag anyone...causing the next
mass murderers years later :eyes:

[Posteritatis]

10. Schools actually *are* starting to ban tag in the US and Canada (nt)

[Solly Mack]

8. That won't go over well...Germany has a Paint-ball League

and there are international tournaments.