Richy_C
04-05-2001, 04:16 AM
this thread is dedicated to people posting what letters they've sent to the candian athorities
Heres mine
Dear Canadian Officer,
The entire community is watching you. Begging you to not allow C-15 to pass. This community is the simple one of paint ball, of whom nearly 1/4 of this community is Candian. This new gun bill is a restriction of freedom for paintballers, making an innocent sport pay the price for the equipment involved. Yes in paint ball it is nessacary to point what has been unfairly deemed as a firearm at another person to become victorious. ANd because of this the entire sporting community is being hurt. Paint ball markers are not "guns", they do not fire bullets or any other projectile that is deliberately harmful. In a recent sport and injury study, paint ball had only 2111 injuries compared base ball or basketball, which had numbers climbing into the many thousands. And most of the paint ball injuries did not happen due the paint balls being shot, 94.3% were injuries such as sprained ankles, from falling on the paint ball fields. All in all, if you had no intention of banning paint ball markers, then please moderate and amend the bill as to allow paint ball markers. If it was your intention to outlaw the worlds fastest growing extreme sport, then you know not what you've done.
Sincerely,
Richard Cole
Heres mine
Dear Canadian Officer,
The entire community is watching you. Begging you to not allow C-15 to pass. This community is the simple one of paint ball, of whom nearly 1/4 of this community is Candian. This new gun bill is a restriction of freedom for paintballers, making an innocent sport pay the price for the equipment involved. Yes in paint ball it is nessacary to point what has been unfairly deemed as a firearm at another person to become victorious. ANd because of this the entire sporting community is being hurt. Paint ball markers are not "guns", they do not fire bullets or any other projectile that is deliberately harmful. In a recent sport and injury study, paint ball had only 2111 injuries compared base ball or basketball, which had numbers climbing into the many thousands. And most of the paint ball injuries did not happen due the paint balls being shot, 94.3% were injuries such as sprained ankles, from falling on the paint ball fields. All in all, if you had no intention of banning paint ball markers, then please moderate and amend the bill as to allow paint ball markers. If it was your intention to outlaw the worlds fastest growing extreme sport, then you know not what you've done.
Sincerely,
Richard Cole