Germany moves to outlaw paintball-says games like paintball encourage violence [View All]

[The Straight Story]

Germany moves to outlaw paintball

Berlin says games like paintball encourage violence

The German government says it plans to ban combat games such as paintball, in response to a recent school shooting.

The new measures being proposed to parliament also include tighter gun control rules and give officials the right to conduct checks on gun owners.

Anyone defying the proposed new rule could face a 5,000-euro (£4,474) fine.

Sixteen people, including the gunman, were killed in the school shooting in March. Relatives of the victims say the new measures do not go far enough.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8041320.stm

See all these years folks have worried about fundies coming to power and enacting idiotic laws to protect us poor sinners from our ways.

Turns out religion is not the issue - it is stupid people with dumb ideas who want to protect us all from everything. It is no longer pass this law to please god and save souls, it is pass this law because me and my buddies think it is a good idea and we are saving your life.

In the end, folks still see other people as easily swayed by demons..err games like paintball and the preachers have moved from the pulpit to the government and traded faith for a new idealism that believes the same way but can be sold because it does not contain 'god is behind the reasoning'.

Same actions, different reasons = same results.

Teh Stoopid, it hurts.