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  • i dont get this? because a person with a real gun kills people....lawmakers ban paintball? dont make sense to me

  • I honistly don't feel that banning paintball anywhere is the solution to this particulair problem. The root of the problem is the lack of value of human life, respect for our fellow neighbors (be it just next door or across the globe). A paintball ban is not the cure. The cure lies in our everyday life. Doing the right thing. Feeding the hungry. Helping the fallen. Being there for the others. Some of us find it in God, others in the things that gives us joy (like paintball). 

  • Why is it that 11 did not like this video.

  • If I never went paintballing with my church 3 years ago, I'd be playin xbox every Sunday instead of playing with my team at the field. Nice job Mike, yours videos have helped me improve everything about paintball, giving me a great expirience. Paintball is now my high.

  • paintball let me quit video games. i look at life more than just sitting inside looking at a tv.

  • like mike said paintball gives me something to look forward to every day... many kids in my school even close friends have done drugs or drank heavily, i got them and myself into the sport and have saved myself as well as 3 close friends and have turned 2 of my other friends lives around.

  • i think if people can't play paintball i think alot of people would go to real firearms or airsoft

  • @knifenewbie456 no i shows people want to join in and get involved in a sport or a hobby

  • @PaintballzInMyMouthx i meant in paintball

  • it releavs peoples wants to actually shoot people.............

  • i just read the wiki page of Winnenden school shooting. all i can say is, he is a problem guy. if he played paintball. i believe he wouldn't ended up like this. but why blame it on paintball??? we played on field of air bunkers and ware brightly colored jersey. and the mother of all paintball rule... safety first! ware your mask! in shooting grounds....

    but if you played in the woods.... still the rules apply...

    read more of it on the wiki... poor guy was a nut case....

  • we shoud start by takeing off thouse irresponsoble vid of shooting people without masks ect...

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  • if it was the feeling of being outcast 9 chances out of 10 it would caused but pb nation

  • Paintball has keept me off drugs, drinking and smoking, all three in my city are normal amongst all teens its really sad

  • Paintball is my anti-drug.

  • 2 years ago i had the best paintball field, my friend owned it, my life was 1000% better, now its closed...now i am always mad and mean to other people

  • I could sit here and argue about this all day, but lets just spam this kind of vid mike made all over youtube to show how much it means to us!

  • How are they blaming this on paintball??

  • Well they were probably shot sooooo many times like this women in Iraq was killed by people throwing stones at here until she died

  • That's fucked up

  • but how did the kid kill the ppl with paintballs plz msg me

  • @platballaz he went with a real gun

  • @platballaz if they were children they maby could get hit in the head to much

  • mike should go around and speak publicly about paintball and how great it is. he is an amazing spokesman!!

  • paintball is nothing to do with killing, its a game like football or rugby. airsoft is more of a simulation of killing-they should ban that instead.

  • well said mike... and wat makes it worse as well is that the people doing these terrible things are also getting rid of our sport which pisses me of big style ... and wat would make you do something like that they must be retarded.

  • nice job mike ...

  • very well spoken mike. there is no need to ban a sport thats intended for pure adrenaline rush and fun. the last thing on my mind when im out playing paintball with my team and my buddies is wanting to injure another human being. this game helps build team work and communication skills. ive met people from paintball that have been my friends for years. i owe alot to this sport.

    God bless the families of this tragic incodent

  • i agree completely and i think we as a paintball community couldnt find anyone else to better represent paintball than mike and tech pb...

    : )

  • I am from germany!

    and i can say, that this topic made one of the biggest discussions in germany ever!!!

    But we won!!!

    Paintball got nothing to do with it!!

  • Very, very well spoken!

    Thank you for that. I think you speak for thousands of PB-players around the world, and hopefully this vid opens eyes.

    Its time to accept paintball as a MAINSTREAM sport

    Many greeting from The Netherlands

  • i dont get it

    what does a 17 yr old fag killing people make the german government shit there pants and decide that paintball airsoft and even NERF AND LASER TAG is bad

  • The goverment made a site about complaints 2 times. they had to shut it down twice because it got overloaded because of the PB lovers! SO THEY DROPPED THE CASE AND WE'RE FREE!!!!!!! PB FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I live in Germany and I'll tell you that that German gov. Since the incedent they tried to ban lasertag, nerf, raise prices on video games, things that simulated killing. Everybody that tried to lay that law down had no idea what paintball was. They thought is was a bunch of people running through a forrest when in fact most of Germany plays speedball and don't think of it as killing.

  • i dnt care if a fucken scumbag takes his own life just dont take kids and innocent people with you

  • this is a great video!!!! i think its true what he is saying!!! i am from germany and i wanna get in the sport and i think its not right what the goverment is doing!!!! there are other sports that are more violent then paintball!!!! but do you guys think the german politicians are gonna watch this video?

  • As a combat vet I will say that the skills used to play paint ball for the most part are absolutly worthless in combat the two are not at all related

  • why ban paintball? when i play paintball i love the rush and the feeling of living playing, i also play rugby wich is a VERY violent sport and you get very angry playing it, in rugby you want to hurt the other person, so why not ban rugby aswell?

  • 6:20 onwards, sooo damn true. (y)

  • ur right all adrenaline ( :

  • I am from Germany...........

    Thank you Mike for making and posting such a great video! You are totaly right........... I agree with you in every single point!

    Sadly there aren't much of this vids

    I hope the people listen to this vid and recognise that PB isn't the reason for killing other students............ all the people who did stuff like that weren't even INTERESTED in the sport....

    Thank you Mike!

  • omg ppl rate this 5 stars *****

  • ya banning it here would just be stupid, that death was prolly cuz that kid was picked on, here in america, its a way to just show ur skillz

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  • I dont know if anybody has mentioned this yet but the two shooters of the columbine massacre bowled the morning of the shooting does that mean that they should try to ban bowling too?

  • stop bein a smart ass. fuck you. this isnt funny.

  • Well said

  • what eventually happend? r they still deciding?

  • not now...

    they will check paintball for "violence"...

    and after the "bundestags elections" no one of the politicans intressts this...

    greetz from germany

  • I am legal counsel fot the German Paintball Federation. We won - the ban is off the table.

  • good to here

  • That's good to hear.

  • WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! *hugs you* im not german but what ever xD

  • wait so the german guy who killed people used a paintball gun. cus why woud they ban pb if he didnt evn use a pb gun

  • if you ever seen charles trippys video, when he gets shot with a paintball marker, i commented on the video saying he shouldnt of done that, and so on and so forth, everyone down thumbed my comment, but they dont understand whats really going on, and what will happen if paintball gets banned. Thank you Mike, and all of techpb for helping my cousin in germany continue there daily dose of paintball fun, :)

  • the sadest thing is that there isn´t even a link between the kid who shot all these people and paintball at all. He could´ve never played paintball in germany since all the fields allow playing at the age of 18 and up no exeptions. He did not own a paintball marker or had any paintball gear whatsoever woodland or sub air in his room. Maybe if he had played paintball and became part of the community he´d not commited this horrible act of violence.

  • i read in splat magizine about half an hour ago that they are off the hook and they realized that paintball had nothing to do with it.

  • sorry i mean facefull magazine

  • thank god.paintball is an amazing sport, dont take it away from anywhere in the world

  • that is fucken ridculous! As if somebody shoots up a school because he has played too much paintball!

  • you made me alomst cry that was raly deep man goooood vid we need to save this we need to team up and do something about it

  • paintball helped me with my weight

  • thats really good

    (im not jokeing)

  • @lcgbrad same with my friends

  • did he kill ppl with a pb gun?

  • no, hes grapped the pistol from his dead that wasent locked up as i should be

    german laws say u need to keep ur weapons locked and safety from the opportunity to grab from soneone that isn alowed to grab it

  • Personally i'd ban airsoft before paintball that's a lot more realistic than paintball.

  • i agree

  • i agree

  • personally i wouldn't ban any fake guns, airsoft is just as much a prefrence, as you may understand im slightly angry and disagreeing with you, because would you be angry if I said:

    "I think its trajic that a hockey player broke his neck we should shift the blame to paintball."

    Your being a jack ass. Airsoft guns have a BRIGHT ORANGE TIP pretty obvious sign its fake.

  • That was amazing mike a++

  • "i dont have money for drugs" of course u wouldnt paintballs !@#$%@ expensive!

  • dude it got me of depression realy...and helped with my weight paintball is amazing

  • agreed, the sport of paintball got me off of cocaine, not even joking

  • thats good.....

  • @blackbob248 im glad to hear tht and im not joking

  • there was that virginia tech shooting that was in the U.S.

  • Das guten! Das guten!

  • Danke aus Deutschland :O)

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  • Very nice, anyone can just protest something, but not everyone can do it the way you did..It'd be nice if the German politicians could see this.

  • Mike that video was truly inspiring and as a paintballing community there we must try to assist our brethern and sistern in germany. This truly is a tradgedy and my prayers go out to the families of those who lost loved ones but banning paintball would make this problem worse than it is. Paintball is a refuge from the worlds cruelty and a thing that causes great joy. Its a refuge for these people who are upset and would do these things. Thank you mike for posting this video

  • If they ban paintball guns they might as well ban real guns because this happens with real guns a lot more than paintball guns. That would be stupid of them to do that. I'm pretty liberal but somebody could kill a bunch of people with a bat but what are they gonna do ban bats. So that's just one messed up person. Paintball is a fun sport, not a way to kill some people.

  • im 13 and i started paintball when i was 9. i found that it was a caring inviroment and does NOT encourage taking others lives. i found that it was a nice place to be to hang with your friends and have alot of fun and i think the german people need to see that side in the sport first without looking at the bad side. my heart goes out to those people who were killed and mike i hope that many people should see this video because they have to.

  • Mike........Iv been paintballing for a while now, and the reason why im in germany is because im in a military family. I will be in the military very soon as well, but I love paintball and here your video is truly inspiring man. Thank you so much for not only your encouragment for the german politics to disregared the ban of paintball, but your love for the sport. Thanks Mike!

  • i agree with you. and also the airsoft comment is also right. paintball is.. in alot of ways a sport that prevents violence like this. thank you mike.....thank you

  • i started paintball at 7 years and im only ten and i really dont want paintball to end but i under stand what u said

  • Its terrible that someone could do this, also i completely agree. if they were to ban paintball then people would still do it but illegally which would create much more problems. Mike thanx for making this vid man and if you ran for president you would have my vote lmao

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  • i totally agree with you mate, paintball has helped me a load, the german goverment are going about this the wrong way.

    also, BAN CERIAL!?!?!?! weetabix and paintball are the reasons i get up in the morning

  • i totally agree... paintball has nothing to do with going to schools and killing the people there.

    at about 5 mins when you said people who feel outcasted by people. its opposite for me, i felt like i was out casted and stuff, got into paintball, and i love it, hense why it helps.

  • MIKE FOR PRESIDENT!

  • this story really pisses me off in that, one bad apple will ruin the whole sport for everyone else who truly law obiding citizens. and why have the german authorities singled out the paintball community?what about airsoft? there you use even more realistic looking guns to intentionally hurt the other player to make them feel the hit.

  • i really like that alot

    you care

    i care

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  • dude my parent heard about this and fliped out im soo mad omg

  • Thoughts and prayers for all in the Euro area that were effected. But please dont ban Paintball. The millenium Series would kill out compleatly!

  • 1 problem in the U.S. we dont use paintballguns we use REAL guns to kill people

  • im deeply sorry also but if this shit comes over to the usa to banned pb from us fuck them!

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  • well the thing is done we still have paintball and a new X ball fields here...

    we had like a celebration that its still here so we made the X ball field

  • Nicely done seems like it worked :)

    How does that make u feel Mike?

  • why would they ban paintball because a nutty guy shot people with a REAL gun it dose'nt make sense

  • That's right they should only ban mil-sim and fast-firing electros

  • why?

  • brilliant

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  • Germany is one of Europes biggest producers of fire arms!! Thay means they make loads of money with it. Instead of getting their weapon industry under controle (wich means they loose a lot of money) they blame paintball of causing masacres at schools..

  • EXACTLY

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  • Not the ejam paintball field, over their every one is always cursing and stuff. I was once about to go their to play for my first time, then i saw a guy get shot and they started cursing, no instead i left and din't play. I had to drive 45 minutes for nothing. So right now i'm looking for a local field in paramus or clos to paramus.

  • FYI the ban is off the table.

  • why would they take paintball from germany , did the masacre happin with a paintball gun? hows that possible i dunno...

  • agreed bro!

  • no the gun man had played paintball a few times any way lets not woury about the ban the goverment has steped down from the ban

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  • my birth day is march 11th

  • Thank you Mike!

    I'm from Germany and Appreciate this video since I learned to play and love paintball in the united states.

    I will pass this video on to a german government agency.

    The bizarre thing is, that paintball in Germany was restricted to people over 18 the age at which you are allowed to enter the military.

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  • Your video is a fine piece of work for ballers or shop-owners like me in germany. you got it definitely to the point. Thank you, mike!

    one question, did you get any response or questions of an office of our government?

  • THANK !!!! YOU !!!!!

    BUT WE WIN THIS MACH ;)

    best regards from Germany

  • mike iss totally correct , i agree with him on every point he made 100%

    i just started playing paintball about 2 months ago and i hadnet even had thoughts about how paintballing can give me an advantage to taking some ones life ... so i agree with mike....

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  • I was born in Germany and lived there for many years and now live in the USA. For those that dont know paintball has been a very controversial topic in Germany for many years, and when they had a pic of someone in a scenario game wearing a Nazi outfit(which is illegal in Germany)on cover of the newspaper that was telling how bad paintball is and why it should be banned it made paintball seem evil. Fortunately the law was rejected, but we still need to show people how safe and fun this sport is.

  • way to go man! i think this is a good disussion about how we need to really look at why people should not ban paintball. its like any other extreme sport. its misunderstood.

  • that is why they need to be able to own there own real guns baning paintball guns is like baning firearms wich is dum

  • I love how paintball is so bad and yet you can still have an actual firearm no problem.

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  • Why are people of government so quick to point fingers, if anything is to blame I doubt he was doing because of paintball, this is quick action by the government to cool some people down, it's ridiculous, it's sad what happened I understand, but paintball wasn't to blame.

  • i would hate life if paintball ever got banned

  • want to know what happened i posted a video response,

  • Damn good posting Mike!

    Communicating is the key to everything!

    Well done and do take care!!

    Mash Hooligans, Sweden

  • real gun..self protection..keeps the goverment from running you over..more guns more guns

  • What do you guys think about real guns? Should they be banned or allowed to be kept by private owners?

  • Paintball is better than drugs! Agreed.

  • lmao, it's actually even better than that hahaha!! I love this comment!! XD

  • Sorry to be a nitpicker, but at 15:20 you spelled tragedy wrong...

  • pretty sure theyre going after video games now...may be wrong... i think the parents just want something to put the blame on, to be honest

  • exellent video, great job

  • It's simple case. At 07-06-2009 we have election to europarlament. This is only political game.

  • Paintball is the best thing EVER!

  • just because som1 used a paintball gun doesnt mean that u should get rid of the sport ppl have been beaten to death by baseball bats that doesnt mean get rid of the MLB or just getting rid of baseball all together

  • The kid that commited the massacre in Germany never every played paintball, let alone held a marker in his hands in his whole life. You have to be 18 years of age in Germany in order to play PB, he was barely 17 at the time.

    He committed the massacre with a 9mm Beretta that his dad stored at home, there is simply NO connection between the massacre and paintball.

    It's just a bunch of dimwitted, uptight, ignorant politicians who want to ban a sport that they cannot understand and/or appreciate

  • ooo thanx 4 clearen things up for me n ur right

  • nice very deep and correct

  • Just like a typical government...."lets tack a solution to a problem that has nothing to do with the problem".....this stupid fuck should have just killed himself and saved all of us a bunch of problems.

  • He did kill himself...

  • I had heard the news on the 13th of march but... it was caused cus the kid was addicted to counterstrike and took his dad´s gun

  • paintball also lets u take anger out on people in a controlled enviorment

    so they dont have to do things like this

  • this is the first time ive heard about the paintball ban and it really is just a immediate action by the german government and this sport is not to blame

    thx for opening my eyes mike

  • this means the millenium series in europe would be shit. if the lawmakers ban paintball throughout europe ... this really sucks

  • keep calling them guns mike...

    FBA!

  • in september are the election.

    they wanna show that they do somthing...

    but it looks like, due to massiv public (thx to the i-net activity of the comunity), they reconsider the gunlaw-changing.

    hopefully a german recballer

  • WORD!

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  • We need a translator to send this to Germany...

  • Thanks Mike for your support!

    The Paintball comunity must stand together worldwide to get this ban off the mind of the stupid polititians in germany!

    If they ban it in germany, it could be banned here in Austria in a couple of months!

  • Not only Austria man, all EU countries which politicans lick bigbrotha EU countries asses :(. Czech paintballer here...

  • im taking german airlines to europe can i bring my paintball gear

  • Hi Guys,

    I am German and in my oppinion those stupid ploticians just needed a fast thing to show off. It's election time soon.

    Sad thing indeed.

  • Good work ,PBTech!!

  • I think banning it is way out of the line, and also dont most militaries use paintball for military training

  • yeah

  • yes military's do the one i can think is the us army

    but its different they are not out at a random field they just use them in simulations not paintball games. also its different in military ur killing ppl but ur also hiding trying not to get shoot

    if ur going to kill urself u dont care if a cop can see u if ur alrdy kiled ppl

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