'Guns down, paintballs up': the US trend for settling feuds with paintball wars
A rapper’s call to resolve conflict with paintball wars is being hailed as a way to tackle gun violence. But some have turned deadly
In videos pouring on to social media from cities across the US, young men are seen brandishing weapons, calling out rivals and firing as people scatter down blocks and around buildings. The point of it all? Gun violence prevention, according to the people involved.
The weapons fire paintballs and participants say it’s a way of settling feuds and disagreements that might otherwise have led to real gunfire.
“In this generation everybody’s fascinated with guns,” said Jarret McClain, a paintballer in Durham, North Carolina. “But if you got paintball guns and you know nobody
