| As more and more video games exhibiting guns and | | | | combat environment. These combats typically include |
| violence take to the market, parents have voiced their | | | | military tactics in order to win the game and players |
| concerns with such influences on the children's | | | | wear replicas of gear and accessories that are used |
| development. Why, then, is the game Airsoft still being | | | | by our military today. |
| allowed and more importantly still being marketed at | | | | Marketed as being 'safe', airsoft guns are sold as toys |
| safe? These games need to be seriously looked at | | | | to just about anyone and are not expensive. A |
| and one needs to ask, do these games like Airsoft fuel | | | | growing number of doctors have reported an influx of |
| violence and increase reckless gun use? | | | | patients being treated for welt-like bb gun wounds. |
| Airsoft is a game that eliminates players by hitting | | | | More seriously, these wounds have been eye related |
| them with 6mm or 8mm plastic bb bullets which are | | | | and have caused serious consequences. By creating a |
| fired from a compressed-air gun. These guns are | | | | war-like environment to play with and shoot at each |
| powered by propane, compressed air, manual | | | | other, how are children to learn what is real and what |
| spring-action, or an electrically powered gearbox. | | | | is play? Accidents happen; this we can all agree on |
| Though this game may sound similar to paint ball, it is | | | | and no matter how much someone tries to be safe, it |
| important to note that a paint ball is far less painful and | | | | is inevitable that these airsoft guns will hit someone |
| dangerous than a bb bullet being fired. | | | | badly enough to cause permanent damage. Let's not |
| Set in a war-like atmosphere, players set up meetings | | | | wait until a tragedy happens; let's proactively end this |
| at airsoft battlefields which are adapted to provide | | | | dangerous 'game' from affecting our youth. |
| bunkers, trenches, tower, and the like to exhibit a real | | | | |