Doesnt this kind of thing just encourage gun crime?
No, we definitely dont believe this to be the case. For many years now, people have been blaming different things for gun crime gangsta culture, films, rap music, computer games, TV, etc. No doubt paintball, airsoft and lazertag have also been considered as causes of gun crime by some people. The fact is that the there are two elements to gun crime; societal elements (poverty, prejudice against a particular group, etc) and people elements (mental illness, bad attitudes, etc). This means that there will always be a small minority of people who feel they have the justification and the right to use real weapons against another person, whether that weapon is a gun, a sword, a knife, a vehicle, or their fists and feet. By strictly supervising our games, and by only allowing use of our guns in a disciplined and controlled environment, we believe that outdoor Lazertag will actually help to educate people about the dangers of guns, ultimately discouraging them from illegally using the real thi