[McKee]

@ Deltastone

I agree with your points. An education effort does need to be made, and there is an onus on the player to ensure safety. To be perfectly frank I would be OK with lasers if there was a fool-proof way to guarantee that every laser device on a field was safe. However, conditions in airsoft are never perfect. Even the best host with an intimate knowledge of laser tech cannot be everywhere at once. Even if he was, as I said, even if you recognize a device to be a AN/PVS xxx which is safe, it may be a knockoff that doesn't actually meet the standards (some knockoff tech is pretty convincing), or it may have different power settings, or someone may hide it from a host, etc. There is just no fool-proof way to guarantee safety. As far as FPS is concerned we can spot chrony and what not, and thats great. But at the end of the day if some cock-knocker shoots me point blank with a hot gun (which has happened), my bloody welts will heal in a few days. You can't say the same for eyesight.

I trust a guy like c3sk or bean with a laser. Chris and Ryan know their tech, I know them to be trustworthy, and more importantly I know where they live. It's the random dude that shows up to a game that I've never seen before with no apparent ASC handle that doesn't know the game rules, can't even manage to wear the right camo, and hardly speaks an official language. That guy can fire a fucking death star laser into my retina and disappear into anonymity without me even knowing about it. The only 100% way to guarantee safety is no lasers at all (and even then someone can bring a laser, as I said the host can't be everywhere).