paintball guns help stop riots in Seattle!!

[mntnair]

I was watching a documentray the other night and the police where using tippmann 98's with rubber balls instead of paintballs. I was just woundering how the rest of you feel about this type of croud control?

personaly i think it is better then tear gas.
But at the same time it dosnt make paintball markers look very good...


thanks for your time
mntnair

[Mushi]

Seems to me it'd be possible to shatter someone's eye with a rubber ball. Tear gas won't do any permenant damage (that I know of...) Paintball markers are dangerous to anyone not wearing goggles, and therefore shouldn't be used anywhere but in regulated areas. (Or your backyard, where its your own perrogative to put yer own eye out if you're stupid enough to not wear goggles. :P )

[DraXsuS]

at the last summit in quebec city, they thought of using autockockers, but they used a bigger kind of gun with big arse rubber balls

[mntnair]

It is weird how the most odviouse things skip your mind... that would suck to be hit with a rubber ball in the eye...

[Magadeth]

I saw a documentary where they were using full auto at85's with teargass filled rounds for crowd control. Just another example of our government gone out of control if you ask me. they are testing these things for use on nonviolent protesters, so that they can disperse a crowd before it gets on the news.

[Super Nick]

How is that an example of the government being out of control? If there is a riot, the police have to do something about it.

[phishstik]

why would the government care if we got hurt

[paintballer56]

they probably shot at their legs

[Magadeth]

Originally posted by Super Nick
How is that an example of the government being out of control? If there is a riot, the police have to do something about it.

A riot and a nonviolent protest are two entirely different things.

If police break up a nonviolent protest, using methods that do not permanantly injure anyone, it will NOT make the news. If they beat people up(seatle wto protests) Or shoot people (Kent state) people remember it. If they use methods that do not leave people lying in the streets wounded, then they accomplish thier objective of silenceing the protest.

A riot. who cares what they do to stop it. The L.A. riots ended up doing the most damage to the neighborhoods that had the most to complain about.

[SH4YD33]

with the teargas balls they shoot at your feet. take for example peper ball. they will sometimes shoot at your chest them when your down shoot at the ground around you.

[-RuShPB227-]

Originally posted by paintballer56
they probably shot at their legs
Or their balls :cry:

[pr0kch0p]

uhhh, stock m98's arent accurate, even if they aimed at chest area, i bet some people still got it in the face.

[Super Nick]

Originally posted by Magadeth


A riot and a nonviolent protest are two entirely different things.

If police break up a nonviolent protest, using methods that do not permanantly injure anyone, it will NOT make the news. If they beat people up(seatle wto protests) Or shoot people (Kent state) people remember it. If they use methods that do not leave people lying in the streets wounded, then they accomplish thier objective of silenceing the protest.

A riot. who cares what they do to stop it. The L.A. riots ended up doing the most damage to the neighborhoods that had the most to complain about.

The police don't break up non-violent protests unless they have a good reason too. If they are blocking traffic or anything like that, they have to break them up. They only use force to break the group up if they won't get out of the way when they are told to.

[Magadeth]

Originally posted by Super Nick


The police don't break up non-violent protests unless they have a good reason too. If they are blocking traffic or anything like that, they have to break them up. They only use force to break the group up if they won't get out of the way when they are told to.

:eyes: It must be nice to live in your world.

Ask anyone who protested the WTO in Seattle how the police behaved there.

Or the protesters at bushes Inauguration.

Or any one who has been involved in the civil rights movement :paranoid:

[Super Nick]

Were you at these things? People have a tendency to exaggerate. Don't believe everything you hear.

[TheNinja]

I was downtown in Seattle for the riots, I live about a 10 min walk away. I dont think the police crossed the line at all. I was hit with a rubber bullet in the knee and choked down a whole lot of teargas, so what? Pain heals, and lungs clear, not a big dea at all. Plus, this was the SPDs first time in dealing with something like this, you can't expect them to have done everything perfectly, they did a damn good job.

[pr0kch0p]

hey Ninja, how much more do rubber bullets hurt than paintballs?

[TheNinja]

Not alot, it felt like getting hit point blank at like 270 fps with a paintball (thats happened a couple times too).

[pr0kch0p]

yeah my friend shot me in my knee from like 3 feet away in the staging area, i guess he forgot to put the barrel plug in :(

it didnt hurt at all though, just felt like something hit my knee

[Super Nick]

Please don't post in caps.