The German government is to ban paintball in response to the school shooting in which 16 people were killed in March.
Experts from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners have agreed to outlaw all games in which players shoot at each other with pellets.
The governing parties say paintball trivialises violence and risks lowering the threshold for committing violent acts.
Infringements to the new rules, which the cabinet hopes to pass before a general election in September, could incur fines of up to 5,000 euros (£4,400).
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Silly. How about banning aeroplanes because it might turn people into hijackers?
I just watched the paintball episode of Spaced again last night. Genius.
Don't just do something! Stand there.
AFAIK they don't allow FPS shooters with red blood either...
... I think it has something to do with the war and massive levels of collective guilt.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.