Germany The Paranoid Whore

Germany strikes again! Now to show all the other people how fucked up Germany is, read this article. It's ridiculus. Germany has got so paranoid that they want to ban Paintball. Its so fucking retarded, I don't get it anymore and I'm not going to talk about it anymore because I've given up on that topic. It is time for the generation thats got the power to die and pass the torch to the younger generation. I don't think they are able to make decisions anymore. First they started to pick on video games. Okey well thats fucked up but okay, fuck that, I get my games from Austria anyway. But now they are starting to censor the intertnet. WTF?! Are we in China or something like that? Yesterday on the website garrysmod.de, a big red Stopsign showed up that said: STOP! You are going to enter a website with illigal material. WTF. That sign is suppost to block child porn, but on the garrysmod site? With this goverment, Germany is really fucked. It would be so easy to just delete any childporn content on the internet, but that would just make too much fucking sense. And from what I understand, everyone that has that sign show up is going to be registerd by the police, that means name, address, provider... The mind fuck thats going on here is unbelievable. Now, to pick on Paintball as well is so idiotic. WHY THE FUCK WHY!? There is no reason for this. Again, I don't play paintball, but that grinds my gears to hear that painball makes you an mass-murderer. We've had Paintball here for 6 years, we have leagues, teams and everything. It's like saying, "Oh well we should ban football in the U.S. because it's making you aggressive". Thats the fucking reason why I wouldn't want to vote. Every single political party in Germany is like a bunch of clowns. But you know what, if anyone wants to start a political discusion with me about voting just forget it I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. If I were to go vote, I'd vote for the Beer Drinker Party.

Germany May Seek Ban on Paintball

By Jörg Diehl, Annett Meiritz and Zacharias Zacharakis

In response to the Winnenden school shooting in March, the German government is moving ahead with a plan to ban paintball, which politicians describe as a game that glorifies murder and teaches people to kill.

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Members of GSG9 paintball team take up positions during a training session in Rio de Janeiro. The team named itself after Germany's elite GSG-9 anti-terrorism force. Will these players soon be forced to give up their game?

Two months after the deadly school shooting in the southern German town of Winnenden, the German government is planning to ban paintball. The tragic March event saw a young man named Tim K. shoot 15 people before turning his gun on himself.

According to reports in the Berliner Zeitung and Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung newspapers on Friday, games like paint ball and laser tag are to be banned in Germany in the future, and people who violate the law could be fined up to €5,000.

"These games simulate murder," Wolfgang Bosbach, who heads the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in the German parliament, told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. He said a deal had also been reached with German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.

The German Paintball League claims about 1,000 people in the country are active in the sport and there are more than 200 facilities where it is played. The organization has sought for years to portray the sport as a safe one. At tournaments, players even eschew red paint because of its optical similarities to blood and the guns used in the sport are referred to as "markers."

The head of the league said he was surprised by the plan to ban what he called a "tactical team sport." But "during an election campaign," he said, "politicians are always looking for a fall guy."

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Supporters of the ban argue that the shooting of paint cartridges at speeds of up to 60 meters per second, reduce a person's inhibition to committing real crimes. "There's a risk that these so-called games will play down the danger of violence and that it will erode barriers to committing violence," said Dieter Wiefelspütz, the domestic policy point man in parliament for the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).

The government has been under pressure to act since the mass killings two months ago. A German Interior Ministry spokesman said Thursday that the government hoped to pass new weapons control legislation before the end of the current term. A political agreement is expected next week and legislation would have to be introduced by the end of May in order for it to be voted on in both of Germany's federal legislative chambers before the summer break in July.

"Teaching People to Kill"

The interior minister of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, Holger Hölvelmann, welcomed the government's plans. He argued that the game was tantamount to "teaching people to kill" or "playing war." "Our society," he said, "should outlaw such cynical games that glorify violence."

Meanwhile, Claudia Roth, the chairwoman of the Green Party, described the proposed tightening of weapons laws as a "courage-less concession to the gun lobby." Instead of banning large calibre guns in general, the coalition government has only managed to agree on a token ban on paintball." By doing so, she said, "the coalition is tightening weapons laws in areas that are the least painful to the gun lobby."

Her party's legal affairs expert, Jerzy Montag, said that while he is no fan of such games ("Do you really need to shoot paint at other people?"), he didn't see any advantage in banning them. "The real issue is the millions of guns kept in peoples homes and at sporting clubs," he told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

During the debate over Tim K., his passion for paintball was much-discussed. But it was soft-air guns that were found in his bedroom. They can also be used to shoot paint-filled pellets, but they are far more similar to actual weapons than paint guns.

The debate over paintball is not new. The German company "Mydays.de," markets paintball as the "ultimate nerve game and the latest sporting trend." But again and again, paintball makes the headlines because it is played at events in Europe held by right-wing extremists or military freaks. In 2007, photos circulated of the head of Austria's right-wing FPÖ party, Heinz-Christian Strache, playing paintball in uniform with a group of right-wing extremists. Press reports spoke of Wehrmacht-like exercises, a reference to Hitler's military, but Strache played the event down, saying he had just been playing paintball.