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Originally posted by SVT Barge:
I think legally a paintball gun is considered a firearm.. so I guess he was just retaliating with similar force 
It is in my community. We have been warned about it a few time while paintballing in the foothills. People see the guns, but they dont realise that there is a lack of sound and that the people getting shot keep fighting.
BB guns, and slingshots are also illegal within my city limits.
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Originally posted by maxx_power76:
Originally posted by todras:
I find it funny that they don't "believe" in autos but they can still ride in them. Nice double standard.
I don't think the driver was amish.
No sh!t. What are you talking about?
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Originally posted by todras:
Not my idea of a prank for 15-23 year olds. I'd be pretty pissed too but I'm not going to shoot anyone.
Oops!
Another well deserved shooting.
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Originally posted by DimitriPopov:
Originally posted by moxnix:
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In the words of a wise man, "Wake the f**k up and smell the maple nut crunch!!"
Thats not a wise man that is dennis miller on the no cure for cancer CD IIRC.
Dennis Leary :P
Even more correction. Denis Leary on "Lock 'N Load" - track 6.
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Originally posted by todras:
Originally posted by maxx_power76:
Originally posted by todras:
I find it funny that they don't "believe" in autos but they can still ride in them. Nice double standard.
I don't think the driver was amish.
No sh!t. What are you talking about?
 Are you talking about amish in general or the story. I was talking about the story. The only person in a car was the shooter. He problably wasn't amish.
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Originally posted by ExDelayed:
Originally posted by SVT Barge:
I think legally a paintball gun is considered a firearm.. so I guess he was just retaliating with similar force
It is in my community. We have been warned about it a few time while paintballing in the foothills. People see the guns, but they dont realise that there is a lack of sound and that the people getting shot keep fighting.
BB guns, and slingshots are also illegal within my city limits.
Not too difficult to make a bad judgement seeing a paitball gun and fire back with the real thing.
But for rotten vegatables?? That's a "little" over the line.
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My only problem with this story is that they keep on referencing to the tomatoes ONLY. The teenagers did admit that they were also firing a paintball gun at the passing cars. Now, putting myself in his shoes, having to deal with that over 4 times in one day AND after threatening to shoot someone if it happens again, I too, would have pulled out a gun and started shooting. Maybe not to intentionally kill someone but to scare the living [censored] out of the bastards VANDALISING cars. They have no right. What if someone passing by got hit with the paintball, couldn't see where they were going and ran off the road and died? Would it be a "harmless" prank then? I don't give a [censored] if it was "tradition" or something that had been going on for decades. The [censored] is immature and wrong. The guy DID warn all of them twice if I can recall and they got what was coming to them. The guy isn't crazy, he just got very heated and acted on built up anger. Any of you guys on here who value their car like a child would have acted the same way and you can't deny it. (SOME of you) Especially those from whom I've heard stories of just some kid throwing a rock or calling your car slow and stupid, or even pouring a soda on it; and these guys were shooting paint balls? I can imagine how some of us would have reacted in the same situation. The persons interviewed in that story are making light of what the teenagers were doing. Saying that it has been done for years and he over-reacted. [censored]. Murder has been going on since LIFE, does that make it okay to kill someone? No. They only emphasize on tomatoes and not the paintball gun as well. Even throwing tomatoes at oncoming cars could be dangerous. Those paranoid over-cautious drivers could freak out and run off the road. Well, I am going to stop ranting even though I have much more to say. -Bishop 
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I would guess that the driver will be up the creek with no paddle when he gets caught. I don't see how that could be self defense. He might get charged with murder and have to spend every penny he owns on lawyers and legal costs. He might go to prison or death row for life.
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too add on to what you said:
our newspaper (cleveland plain dealer) also downplayed the stuff the amish kids/adults were doing.
they called it "pranks" and something that was a "tradition" (or something to that effect). also, they only had ONE sentence about the paintball gun. the rest was about throwing tomatoes. talk about being biased...
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Keim was born into an Amish family, but his family left the Amish church and became Mennonites, said Yoder.
Mennonites share similar beliefs with the Amish, but drive cars and use more modern conveniences.
The kid who was shot wasn't Amish. That's why they were able to use the paintball gun.
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