Persuasive Speech On School Shootings

Many parents are bombarded by the pleas of their children to play paintball, and other shooting games. The majority of those parents would, without a second thought, deny their children instantly for the fear of it being unsafe. Naturally the idea of guns, shooting, and war are of putting especially for children. As a society, guns are becoming apart of kids lives at an earlier age. They are all over movies, games, books, and the internet. Kids play with toy guns from their favorite Disney movie, or even nerf guns. Kids have a natural curiosity for everything, if it is for guns or even for airplanes, it is the same curiosity. Instead of pushing those topics away for the fear of making them violent, it would be more beneficial to educate children …show more content…
Each day at my job I am confronted by parents and children that need reassurance that they will be okay. Over and over I reiterate that it is a safe and fun sport, and there are staff members watching over each game to ensure the safety of each player. On a Saturday in June of 2015 I was reffing a game of children and adults. These adults all had a child on the field, so to me, I thought I’d have more eyes watching the kids carefully because they were responsible adults. My biggest concern is kids that play, not because they are incapable of playing, but because they are most likely to break a rule on accident, or to get startled easier, so it is my job to watch over them. During a particular game a child’s mask fell off down around his neck while he was inside a bus on the playing field. This was a simple mistake, he forgot to check to make sure his mask was adjusted properly for his head prior to the start of the game. Parents kept shooting at him without realizing the danger, while he screamed in fear. As soon as I saw this happen I broke into a dead sprint to the child to shield him from the players while I yelled for them to stop, put on their barrel bags and that the game has ended. I took the child into my arms, while protecting his face I put his mask back on and walked him off the field. It took my no more than twenty …show more content…
The author defines paintball as “a sport in which players eliminate opponents one by one from the game by striking them with paintballs (gelatin balls that contain a non-toxic agent) that are shot from a marker.” (5). This definition is very accurate to what paintball truly is, but it is very blunt. Paintball is a sport that teachers people of all ages how to work as a team to accomplish a common goal, as well as sharping the player’s minds because of all the strategic planning they must do throughout the game. Players are usually randomly put together on teams differently throughout their day. Doing this teaches them social skills. Paintball may seam kind of random and unorganized by this description, but it is definitely not. Paintball is a well thought out, safe sport. One of the biggest safety rules in paintball is the mask rule. The author Andrew Mensa, a paintball enthusiast, talks about paintball masks in chapter three, The Safe Way of Play, when he states, “Paintball goggles are designed to withstand a smack from a paintball traveling at ninety miles an hour… this is the standard speed limit for paintball guns. You cannot play on any commercially operated fields today unless you are wearing on some kind of protective paintball mask.” (15). This is the biggest rule because if all else fails, and every rule is broken, if your safety mask is on