Demonic69 said:
No offence mate but a helluva lot can kill without hitting you in the eye, does that make everyone a numpty for not hiding in a sealed room filled with bubble-wrap (although that has killed more people than paintballs).
So why are we an accident waiting to happen?
And still you still provide no evidence, none of you do, that a paintball can kill.
It may be the trigger for a heart-attack, or knock you off your feet and into a river... but so far not one person can say "See, a paintball killed this person"
The reason I mentioned the eye thing is because people kept ranting about paintballs going into the eye socket.
The reason we are an accident waiting to happen is because we refuse to accept that a few paintballs hitting the right spot on the back of your skull a few times in a row WILL send you to La-la-land... I can introduce you to some friends of mine who've had serious concussions from playing paintball, and the markers used were NOT hot.
Like I've said, I've seen concussions (which are a small form of brain damage, which can get worse and worse when repeated...) and I've seen ruptured nuts. I've seen plenty of broken skin (there goes that reasoning out the window...) and I've seen a blasted eye. I've seen plenty of other gore, but that had nothing to do with paintball (nice looking women are always welcome to swoon over my stab wound scars...)
The fact that nobody (I'm excluding the guy who died, because it's discussable if it's directly paintball's fault he died) has died proves only one thing: That it hasn't happened yet, not that it can't or won't happen. If one punch in the right place can kill you, so can 15BPS. If you don't want to believe me, fine, I won't lose any sleep over it.
It's not A paintball that can kill, it's a number of them. Agreed, the chance of getting the right number all hitting the same spot is remote, but it can happen and with ROFs going up, the chances of it happening go up equally.
Why do you think that a few years back you saw a number of companies pop up that sold protective head gear? The reason it wasn't a succes is not because there is no place for protective head gear in this sport, rather that it is just not "agg" enough for the most of us. Admittedly, I don't wear it either, so I am just as stupid as the rest of us. The main difference is I KNOW and ADMIT that I'm being stupid and I'm not suffering from cognitive dissonance and try to explain the risk away with BS.
