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Cheap submachine gun 12/30/2011 4:59:00 PM
Airsoft guns are so much fun....very interesting post...i loved going through your post....it is very well written.The title of this post says everything.
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Q 09/18/2008 12:57:00 AM
I as a female have a great deal of respect for this sport and the people that play it. A little bit of respect goes a long way and I ask that everyone respect the individual's choice and right to choose. If your preference is to play paintball (whether speed or woodsball), then so be it. If you prefer to participate in MiliSim airsoft then rock it. My fiancee is ex military and loves to play airsoft and I take a great offense to anyone telling him to stop playing and serve his country like a real man or that this game is for gays (not that gays don't play it). Knock it off already! Like I said. Have some respect!
Love you Sgt.Dan
P.S.
To the reporter, the article was well written, but dare I say you delve deeper into the characters of the individuals who were killed while in possession of airsoft guns. I believe that its safe to say that their issues were not the guns, its that they wanted to die. These cases were suicide by cop simply put. He could have just as easily went to school with a steak knife and done a heck of lot more harm with that than a airsoft gun. So be careful not to be so audacious with your examples.
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APOLLO 09/17/2008 6:58:00 AM
oops, lots of typos in there, whatever you all get the point.
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APOLLO 09/17/2008 6:55:00 AM
first id like to say i wish we had a reporter with better sense of ethics. the aritcle is completely one-sided.. fuzzy's side. and some things mentioned are down-right lies. like cantillo and jolly have been buting heads for ages? ive been at this field for about a year now and cantillo just started showing up in about may or so, wen wrd of this pricless find leaked out to the airsoft community. and btw, that second hostage game that the "opposition" (makes it obvious who the reporter considered friend and foe) won, tha was my team, and it was me who grabbed you and ran you around...never using you as a human sheild because that would have made us lose... why would i do that... anyway. being a reporter, you should have done a bit more research, and maybe asked more about the area and the sport from the people who had been there the most. if youd like to redeem yourself and right an artical more accurate and far that this one, e-mail me and i will point you in the right direction.
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"Jerry" 09/15/2008 2:02:00 AM
I am an avid airsoft player with my friends in the local area, it disappoints me to see ignortant paintballers saying airsoft if for wimps. For the little kids that go to wal-mart and buy a cheap crappy gun, it is. They play in the backyard and are usually the cause of legal issues with airsoft and give our hobby a bad name. TRUE airsoft guns out range paintball guns with higher FPS, (although the projecitle is much lighter resulting is fewer joules upon impact). I play both airsoft and paintball and both sports have their ups and downs. But people that are uneducated on the real way airsoft is can run their mouths all they want while we laugh... and many of them can get arrested, threatened by police, and even lose their lives making terrible mistakes.
Please see airsoft is a legit sport, we understand that many people don't approve, but don't badmouth the sport like an idiot until you know your facts, and respect airsoft replicas like they are real firearms to avoid legal issues that may hurt the sport's standing more in the public's eyes.
You time is appreciated.
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Matthew 09/13/2008 8:03:00 PM
Anyone who uses an airsoft gun as if it were a real weapon DESERVES to be shot.
If I ever bring my airsoft gun to school and act like it's real, PLEASE PLEASE shoot me right away because that will be the point where I forfeit my right to live for being so stupid.
If someone wants to die, they should hang themselves or jump off something tall or just get over themselves and get some help, not make a public scene and waste everyone's time.
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Beers 09/13/2008 5:36:00 AM
Thanks for the article on a new sport that is still going through some growing pains.
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Spetsnaz 09/13/2008 5:08:00 AM
amen to that, enough with this stupid fighting, even though i know most of the men mentioned in this article. I'm disappointed by it, it really shows us as being a bunch of idiots with anger problems. Especially the end, stuff like that rarely happens, jolly is great guy.
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Dan 09/13/2008 4:56:00 AM
"---Harvey Mansfield, a professor of government at Harvard and author of the 2006 book Manliness, ventures a guess. "This looks to me like another instance of unemployed manliness," he says in an email to New Times. "These young men ought to be in the military, where they can tote real guns in public for a purpose. Instead they play like kids pretending to be men."--"
This is "DAN" from the Red Dawn game: It doesn't surprise me that you put-down the airsoft community, because it is often misrepresented and most people,like you, have no clue of what airsoft is really about. What I do find very funny is that an ivy league professor would write a book on "manliness" and that you would for a second think that you would know ANYTHING about what it is like to serve in the military or participate in an organized team event like airsoft.
Airsoft to most players is more about team work and spending time with friends than anything else. The majority of airsoft events require participants to be 18 and over for a reason. What gives the game a bad rap is when kids are in possession of airsoft guns without understanding the importance of proper handling and gun safety. That's why you never hear about an adult confronting police with an airsoft gun, its always some stupid kid. Which brings up the question: Where are the parents???
And since you are obviously not aware, there are A LOT of former, current, and soon to be enlisted members of the military playing airsoft as well as police officers and firefighters. If anything, airsoft has probably saved lives since it gets rid of the John Wayne solo mentality and stresses team work and tactics. So much so, that police departments have started to use airsoft for simulated training for officers since some don't get a second chance if the real thing happens.
As for me, I am a former Marine Sergeant trained in everything from close quarter battle to sniper. I don't "pretend" to do anything. Something you didn't have the balls to do. Call me when you want a real man to revise your book for you ,chump.
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CH 09/12/2008 11:00:00 PM
PAINTBALL LACKEY SHUT UP! PAINTBALL IS TO AIRSOFT WHAT DIET SODA OR LIGHT BEER IS TO THEIR TASTIER CONTERPARTS. PAINTBALL IS OVERRUN WITH DRUNKEN "EXTREME!!!" JUNKIES. THE SPORT OF PAINTBALL REQUIRES LITTLE TO NO HONOR OR RESPONSIBILITY, NOT TO MENTION TACTICS OR SKILL. AIRSOFT IS NOT JUST ABOUT SHOOTING PEOPLE UP EVENTHOUGH IT IS A MAIN ATTRACTION. AIRSOFT IS ABOUT COMMUNITY, FUN, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TACTICS. YOU'LL NEVER FIND AN AIRSOFTER FLICKING AT THE TRIGGER AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT. ALL THAT BEING SAID SOME PEOPLE LIKE DIET SODA AND LIGHT BEER. TO EACH HIS OWN. THE PAINTBALL AND AIRSOFT COMMUNITIES SHOULD NOT BE UNNECESSARILY DIVIDED BY USELESS COMMENTS ON WHAT REAL MEN AND WOMEN DO. REAL MEN AND WOMEN SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN ASWELL AS THOSE OF PEOPLE WHO CANNOT DEFEND THEMSELVES.
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John 09/12/2008 9:37:00 PM
Airsofting is for wimps anyways...real men (and women) play paintball.
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