Isn't subjectivity the fault at all sports though? A referee in football is just as subjective as a marshal in paintball. you only have to listen to any post-match pub analysis to hear how the ref made a bad call or handed out the wrong penalty...etc, etc.
The marijuana argument is an interesting one, but it's a decriminilisaton which has been made because it's been studied, the pros and cons have been weighed up, and in the end the Government have decided it's not the spectre of evil that it's made out to be. Marijuana is used by hundreds of thousands of people who don't then go on to become smackheads and even the police in a procedural document written back in the Eighties admitted they could see no clinical reason as to why it is a criminal substance...in fact decriminlisation is more about the fact that the safety element of marijuana isn't in question, it's not as damaging is a highly biased opposition want to make out
You can't really say the same about ramping, the pros and cons haven't really been weighed up, and the allowance of ramping has just come about because it seemed like the path of least resistance in a sticky situation of trying to enforce the rules. And Ramping has a safety issue attached...say the case of ramping was put before a panel of MP's, they were shown examples of it in the field, and they were asked to decide on legislation to accept ramping or just true Semi-Auto...could you say, with certainty that they would choose ramping?
I believe the answer is to ban ramping, and to put pressure on the industry which produces the equipment to stop producing anything which is against the rules of paintball (and potentialy the law). And the earlier comment expressing that if we want to take on the companies we might as well roll over now is just the kind of thing that prevents us, as the members of this sport, from getting together and stopping runaway advances that could kill the sport entirely. Consumerism can drive suppliers.
.I read in another thread about a type of security tag that can be produced and easily checked......what's to say that can't be adopted as an industry standard? Enforced by the UKPSF and the producers lobbied, along with a gentle reminder about airgun law within the UK and how it is likely to apply to a paintball marker if a safety case was ever brought into court. Or is it the case that no-one wants to say no to the corporations that happily take our money in the name of sport?
Stopping the boards even being available wipes out the whole "not enforceable on the field" question.
The marijuana argument is an interesting one, but it's a decriminilisaton which has been made because it's been studied, the pros and cons have been weighed up, and in the end the Government have decided it's not the spectre of evil that it's made out to be. Marijuana is used by hundreds of thousands of people who don't then go on to become smackheads and even the police in a procedural document written back in the Eighties admitted they could see no clinical reason as to why it is a criminal substance...in fact decriminlisation is more about the fact that the safety element of marijuana isn't in question, it's not as damaging is a highly biased opposition want to make out
You can't really say the same about ramping, the pros and cons haven't really been weighed up, and the allowance of ramping has just come about because it seemed like the path of least resistance in a sticky situation of trying to enforce the rules. And Ramping has a safety issue attached...say the case of ramping was put before a panel of MP's, they were shown examples of it in the field, and they were asked to decide on legislation to accept ramping or just true Semi-Auto...could you say, with certainty that they would choose ramping?
I believe the answer is to ban ramping, and to put pressure on the industry which produces the equipment to stop producing anything which is against the rules of paintball (and potentialy the law). And the earlier comment expressing that if we want to take on the companies we might as well roll over now is just the kind of thing that prevents us, as the members of this sport, from getting together and stopping runaway advances that could kill the sport entirely. Consumerism can drive suppliers.
.I read in another thread about a type of security tag that can be produced and easily checked......what's to say that can't be adopted as an industry standard? Enforced by the UKPSF and the producers lobbied, along with a gentle reminder about airgun law within the UK and how it is likely to apply to a paintball marker if a safety case was ever brought into court. Or is it the case that no-one wants to say no to the corporations that happily take our money in the name of sport?
Stopping the boards even being available wipes out the whole "not enforceable on the field" question.
