14 year old shoots parents, blames video games

[Gennadios]

This guy is mentally ill, no doubt about it. What worries me is that he will get away with this shit by getting a lenient sentence, because the judge is probably going to be an older person who isn't educated about games and shit. All this is doing is harming our favored medium and making building a much more solid foundation harder.

It may surprise you, but the legal system has some very smart child psychologists and judges working in it. The media may very well go batshit, but even if the kid goes free he'll be going through a metric ton of psych evals and probationary actions. There's a good chance he'll be kept in a psych prison for the rest of his life.

 

[The White Hunter]

I can't help but notice that the article said the kid pried open his dad's gun safe.
Uh...
Assuming they aren't just substituting the word "unlocked" with something more spicy, someone with a gun safe, tell me: Exactly how easy is it to physically PRY on of these open?

Well if years of myhtbusters have taught me anything it's that actual safes are really fucking hard to break into.

Like, plasma cutter is needed, that kind of hard > >

OT: Psycopath, imprisonment, do not allow to claim insanity, because he isn't, simple.

What do you mean, he isn't insane.

Reading his reasonings, and that he's wanted to kill his parents "for years now" seems pretty insane to me

Not necessarily insane. Decidely psychotic though and clearly unsafe to be around normal people, but you can be a psychopath and be sane. The two are not mutually exclusive things.

I was saying that pleading insanity for a lighter sentence in such a situation should be immediately thrown out of the court.

I don't think insanity sentences work the way you say they do. Pleading insanity might get you less prison time, but that doesn't mean you can just walk out of a psychiatric hospital after a year either. I can't recall where exactly I read it, but people who plead insanity, and receive it, usually end up spending twice as long in a hospital, than if they were just to go to prison alone

I'd rather spend a longer time in a psychiatric hospital than an american prison if I'm honest.

I'd rather this monster spend a longer time in an American prison, where he belongs.

Yeah me too to be honest, preferably the most unpleasant of american prisons.

 

[Stryc9]

Sounds like more of a shitty parenting problem than a violent videogame problem. If you install a security system in your house because you're afraid of your kid maybe you should have spent that money getting the little shit some help instead of leaving him to his own devices but with a system in place so you could not to run and hide from him if he started looking particularly murderous that day.

You know, if you exchange the 'videogames' parts and swap it with 'guns', swap 'parents' with 'the government' and 'teenager' with 'wacko gun nut' it sounds like what lots of gun owners say they will do if assault rifles get banned. Just saying.

No, this again is just a small extremely loud minority[/b[ of gun owners who are throwing a reactionary fit to the threat of a law that they see as the start of a slippery slope for gun control which ends in the loss of all gun rights.

Are they being incredibly retarded in how they go about proving their point?

Yes. I despise these morons that go to their rallies on the steps of government buildings WITH THEIR FUCKING GUNS as much as I dislike anyone who wants to blame every single gun related crime on the guns instead of the people who use them to commit crimes. A gun is nothing more than a useless lump of metal until someone picks it up with the intent to kill someone with it.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

If this kid was hearing voices in his head I highly doubt video games were the problem.

 

[Stryc9]

Oh great this is just what we needed after Sandy Hook, good luck convincing republicans that video games have no relation to violence now!

I'm sorry, you don't get to single Republicans out on this one. Let's not forget the past when Senators Lieberman (Democrat) and Hillary Clinton (Democrat) were BOTH trying to ram through videogame legislation in the wake of Columbine. This isn't something that can be blamed on one party or the other, BOTH parties are full of reactionary nitwits trying to pass bullshit legislation against videogames.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Now see what all these stupid morons who vilify violent games for everything have done! They've convinced stupid kids that they can get away with (attempted) murder by using the excuse "the games made me do it" because they've loudly declared that GAMES are responsible for everything bad with the world! It's THEIR goddamn fault now.

 

[The Selkie]

In fairness I didn't see anywhere that he said games made him do it.If anything voices (potentially his inner monologue?) made him do it. I'm sceptical that the cameras were installed to "ensure he does his chores" - surely if he has to do the dishes then if the dishes aren't done he hasn't done them? If he has to clean his room and it's dirty then he hasn't done it? I don't think a 14 year old can contemplate killing his parents for years without any outward signs that all is not well.

I came here expecting to read about a kid who'd made a huge mistake and tried to blame it on games (since they get a lot of bad press) as no 14 year old ever says "yeah, I did something wrong, no excuse for it just a bad move by me" it's always "yes, I was in the wrong but...". Surprisingly it just seems like the kid had real psychological problems and the parents didn't spot it.

 

[FoolKiller]

If I ever have my own kid point a gun at me, I'll kill the fucker myself.

Like Russell Peters said "If I kill you, I can just make another one. Tell him how stupid you were"

 

[funkyjiveturkey]

seriously? there is clearly much more here at work than video games. this kid needs some serious psychological help.

 

[Wunderhund]

Wait a minute. The kid never said "video games made me do it". That's all conjecture on the part of the writer. It doesn't even come close to saying that.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

"He said he just heard over and over in his head that he would be able to do whatever he wanted if he killed his parents."

Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhh, it wasn't the video games. This kid is clearly mentally ill. He needed psychiatric care, not a surveillance system.

This. Also crappy gun safety by the parents if there 14 year old knew where it was and was able to get it.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Anyone who tries to kill their own parents, where the parents are assumed to be regular, non-abusive people, is in need of psychiatric care regardless of videogames.

But you know what the elephant in the motherf***ing room is? HE SHOT THEM WITH A GUN HE HAD ACCESS TO.

AT 14.

In my opinion, all the blame videogames have been getting - ESPECIALLY in response to the massacre - has been a diversion strategy for the gun lobby. Because guns are sort of the logical place to look when this sort of thing occurs.

 

[Excludos]

Anyone who tries to kill their own parents, where the parents are assumed to be regular, non-abusive people, is in need of psychiatric care regardless of videogames.

But you know what the elephant in the motherf***ing room is? HE SHOT THEM WITH A GUN HE HAD ACCESS TO.

AT 14.

In my opinion, all the blame videogames have been getting - ESPECIALLY in response to the massacre - has been a diversion strategy for the gun lobby. Because guns are sort of the logical place to look when this sort of thing occurs.

Was thinking the exact same thing. They knew he was ill, they had set up a surveillance system for him after all..and they couldn't be bothered to lock up their gun properly?! This is why US desperately needs stricter gun control.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well he gave up violent games years ago, so clearly it wasn't that.
Also very interesting that a kid psychotic enough that his parents had him under video surveillance (a measure found too extreme for most prisons) was still allowed access to guns... that is just brilliant, but hey some parents learn from advice, others from gun shot wounds, I imagine they might pay more attention to what the fuck they are doing with their kid now.

So do remember this lovely story for when you have some spawn of your own, if you don't do your parental work you will get shot.