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Article #47: Airsoft Guns

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






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