| Airsoft guns may soon be going the way of
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| | certainly led to a move to ban them.
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| real guns around the world, even in the
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| | In light of the calls to ban what are
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| US. Built to resemble actual weapons,
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| | essentially toys, it?s quite ironic that
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| Airsoft guns instead shoot pellets and
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| | the rise of Airsoft popularity began in
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| are used in several games much like
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| | Asian countries where access to real
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| paintball. These games range from
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| | firearms is difficult. The realistic look
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| freeform death match style in which all
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| | of the guns contributed to the popularity
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| the players are basically out for
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| | of the games in which they used, lending
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| themselves and anything goes, to team
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| | them a certain reality that older style
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| play that resembles war games. Although
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| | pellet guns simply didn?t have.
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| pellets are used instead of bullets or
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| | Eventually, the craze pushed westward and
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| paintballs, getting hit can still result
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| | took up residence in Europe and America.
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| in a nasty sting and a lingering wound.
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| | With the lax gun control laws in America,
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| Complaints against Airsoft guns have come
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| | these Airsoft guns are much more
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| from a number of quarters. For instance,
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| | dangerous. While it?s unlikely that a
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| the University of Hawaii at Manoa has
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| | large group of young people in Japan or
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| banned Airsoft guns. Despite that ban?or,
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| | England would be walking around openly
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| indeed, perhaps because of it?the campus
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| | carrying real guns, the police in America
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| was the site of a series of assaults on
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| | don?t have the luxury of second guessing.
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| students by someone using an Airsoft
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| | If a policeman sees a gun that looks real
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| pellet gun. Even so, much of the uproar
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| | he simply has to assume that it is real,
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| has less to do with the damage done by
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| | especially when pointed at him.
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| the pellets and more with the
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| | The answer, clearly, doesn?t have to be
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| construction of the guns themselves.
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| | outright banning of Airsoft guns. Since
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| Airsoft guns can take the form of
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| | even accidental victims of pellet shots
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| handguns or larger rifles and they can
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| | often admit that getting shot by one of
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| look remarkably realistic. It is this
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| | them isn?t terribly painful, it seems
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| realism that has raised questions of
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| | rather ridiculous to ban these guns when
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| safety, not the actual damage done by the
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| | the banning of real handguns are
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| pellets. Recently in Florida, a middle
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| | impossible. Rather, why not just make
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| school student was shot by police after
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| | them less realistic? That doesn?t
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| he brandished a weapon at them. The
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| | necessarily entail stripping the Airsoft
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| weapon turned out to be a pellet gun,
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| | guns of all realism, but would it hurt to
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| though it was never established whether
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| | redesign them subtly so that it is
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| or not it was actually an Airsoft gun.
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| | obvious they aren?t actual handguns?
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| From a distance, Airsoft guns definitely
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| | The cost of realism in a game hardly
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| resemble the real thing and this has
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| | seems worth the price of a life.
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