Airsoft on 2fm at the moment

And my favorite:

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Suffice to say obfuscating an object makes it more difficult to identify, not easier.

Its all over now is it? I missed the whole show, I'm lucky I imagine.

In fairness, I think it's better to keep an eye on what the hysterical 'masses' next move is.

For those that missed it (like me) go here, click the listen back button and skip to about 5 minutes from the start.

i used to respect colm hayes as a broadcaster, but as of today no longer. the way he kept asking for any stories involving aegs and the like. he was blatantly fish fishing for horror stories and then at the end of the show when he asked the lady who got 7k off a ring did she "pull one of these guns" on the jeweller right after talking to man who had an incident with 2 lads pulling a replica on him.

Podcast is fixed now - about an hour long

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-17111051m36scolmhayes.mp3

Overall, it wasn't too bad and he didn't get the sensational angle he was fishing for. Thanks for all the good comments, but to be honest, I HAD to get involved once I heard ukara and two tone guns being proposed as a solution.

There has been a huge amount of work done to discount these as viable control measures, and as such a lot of the responsibility has been left in our hands to ensure the responsible use of our rifs. Let's not lose that privilege.

We as airsofters need to take it upon ourselves to educate people and demonstrate that our sport is safe and acceptable. The easiest way to do this is to lead by example. Eventually, the general media will realise that there really is no sensational story

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To be honest I just wanted to listen to Richard. I'll apologise to Oz in advanced but from my messing with the skipping on the bar I just heard two lads talking so much pony trying to defend airosft, skipped to Mr.Smith, solid job really good and that was the end of the listen to me.

Why o why is it always Ak-47's, of course it is always going to look bad and negetive iwth an AK.

A Scar or a Masada and things would be so much better

"So Richard hold on, your telling me a 12 year old can run around a forest with a sex lobster delivered by the divine lord and unleash justice on people?"

I loved how to he tried to insinuate that a 12 year old would get the hankering for a REAL AK, you could hear in your voice bio " Are you for real ya dope, its not heroin like".

And also " Surely people will lose the plot in the forest"

Invite the wally out for a game plx, I'll even lend him my kit and pay his fee...

all in all lads it wasnt too bad at all.well done ozzie and richie:)

thank christ Bio you went on...you could hear the disappointment in his voice that he wasn't getting anything out of you

great work

We should arrange a charity day next year and every site should invite their local radio , politician , garda liaison that sort of thing.One big unified national public day on all sites with airsofters doing good and being seen to do good ????????

OzCam wrote: »

PS: can we all please lay off Joe Duffy? He's not actually as bad as he sounds sometimes, and defenderdude straightened him out about airsoft last year.

No we cant, its not simply his airsoft shows, if you listen to him most of the days his shows are absolute, 100% ,scaremongering

His recent show about student fees increasing was off particular note. Was the closest I ever came to ringing into a phone in show.

segairsoft wrote: »

If licencing is what is needed, then let them introduce it, where is the problem with this?
Perhaps a plug for the IAAF website wouldn't have gone amiss.
just my toughts.

Maybe that it would be a nightmare to enforce and also the fact airsoft guns have no serial numbers which would be required.


IAAF bit off topic don't you think?:pac:

Iv just finished listening to the podcast will done to the guy from the IAA and the guy that was on before him but what the he'll was up with your man at the start ???? And I'd like to ad to all walks of life playing the wondfull sport of Airsoft I work in in a primary care unit and have never seen any Airsoft related injuries coming into my job in the last 10 years iv worked in the HSE...

scanlant wrote: »

I don't know why some of the others phoned in though.

People are very quick to voice opinions. Regularly posts will appear on boards where you wonder what the hell they were on or why didn't they take a minute to compose their thoughts before posting.

On the radio the goal is ratings which means they want to goad people into calling so that the majority will continue to listen. Subject matter is irrelevant. Just have a listen to the ****e they go on about in the mornings when people are on their way to work. Most love it.