Paintball is a rapidly growing sport that began in the nineteen eighties. Farmers used paint markers to shoot their cows and mark them as their own. People soon took the markers and used them to play war like games with each other. Since then paintball markers, or guns, have come a long way. Today, there are hundreds of different types of markers available for purchase. To start playing paintball one needs several things. First of all a person needs a marker, with that he or she also needs paintballs, an air tank, a hopper, and a mask. Paintballs are the ammo for the marker. The hopper acts as the clip would in a firearm; it holds the ammo or paintballs. The air tank is what powers the marker. Paintball games can be played with any number of people on a team and using any scenario imaginable. Often players will get together in someone’s woods and just try to get everyone on the other team out. The game is easily adaptable though and could be played as capture the flag, defend the fort, or even something unusual like pretending to protect the president or some other V.I.P. Another option is to play at a field. Fields are places that are set up for people to come play at for a fee. T
Another problem is that here at North Carolina State University paintball markers are unfairly banned from campus. This is an act of discrimination against the sport and its players. The university invites us to come here on their assumption that we are intelligent and responsible students. At the same time, the university insults us by also assuming we cannot handle a paintball marker. One of the university’s mains concerns is that someone could get hurt or harassed. Anyone who has played before knows that serious injury is highly unlikely. It would be much more probable that students would hurt themselves or someone else while riding their bicycle around campus, yet there are no rules about wearing helmets or where to ride. Most of the students on campus are not from this area, and they would have to drive a long way home if they desired to play paintball. That fact combined with freshmen not being allowed to have cars on campus successfully stops others and myself from enjoying a harmless game. This dilemma of not having vehicles makes the rule even more unfair. So due to the improbability of someone being injured on campus from a marker, the university denies many of its students the right to play paintball. The number of balls per second fired is another thing that shouldn’t be regulated. Many officials and insurance agents want the number regulated so as to make the sport “safer.” In actuality, the number of times a person gets hit is not that great of an issue. The balls are not lethal, and being hit by more than one likely will just result in just a bruise. Paintball has been about advances in technology and equipment from the beginning. By limiting rate of fire you are taking away one of the main avenues of advance in a marker. The rate of fire would never be able to get hugely out of control anyway. My paintball marker can fire up to twenty-six balls per second. A machine can only obtain that rate though. There are physical limitations as too how fast a person is able to pull the trigger. Also balls can only be fed to the chamber so quickly. Someone with a fast finger and good equipment might be able to fire about sixteen to eighteen balls per second. These physical limitations are reasonable enough, which is why further rules do not need to be added. A concern is that someone may get hit multiple times before they can react and call themselves out. While no one likes to be “lit
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