Boy Kills Brother After Videogame Argument

[The Bandit]

I don't blame the father I blame the overreaction of the nine year old.

This. Quit trying to slide attention away from the videogame and blame the stupid kid.

 

[Hitman 43]

I blame the father for having his gun in a place where the boy could get his hands on it.

Both the father and the kid are to blame. The father for leaving the gun around the house, and the kid for getting it in the first place. Kids are so brainwashed by video games these days.

 

[zombiebeard]

I'd put more input myself, but I have to run to work, here's a comic that sums it up nicely. (sorry if it's been posted before)

Spoiler

 

[llewgriff]

Yeah, so the kid knows where to find and how to use a shotgun, but it's the video game's fault?

Whatever happened to journalistic integrity?

Was there ever any? Well it's another blow to videogames, but I think we were due for one. It seems that every other murder has videogames to do with somehow........

 

[Bhuggy]

This is the kinda thing that makes parents go 'ape-shit' over videogames, they neve notice that it's the parents fault 90% of the time.

 

[Pimppeter2]

What a stupid family. All of them

I guarantee you the reason they don;t try and find out what game it is becuase its not violent. No ones gonna care if its mario and sonic at the olympic games instead of Killzone> Why don't they just ask the kid.

 

[minarri]

Serious anger management issues much? This has nothing to do with video games; if they hadn't been arguing over who was beaten in a game, they'd have been arguing over something else.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Hmm, is it the videogame's fault or the fault of the father for leaving both a shotgun and its ammunition in reach of a 9-year-old after teaching him how to operate it?

And whoever says it is the video game's fault is especially idiotic because boys get in fights all the time, the factor that resulted in death was the SHOTGUN!

 

[zahr]

Also, this is natural selection. Survival of the fittest. The family that keep guns in their house, will be spreading their genes less.

 

[Flap Jack452]

The brothers were playing a death simulator, and the older bother, fresh off the high of virtually disemboweling his younger brother, gloats maniacally. The younger brother, driven over the edge by the combination of the adrenaline from murder simulating and his recent e-defeat, remembers where his dad stored his shotgun. And every gamer knows shotguns are the best short range solution in a firefight.

He carefully loads the barrels, but his older brother recognizes the familiar sound of a shotgun loading near the area of the weapon spawn point. He charges in to melee range, prepared for the inevitable quicktime struggle. Then, the older sibling valiantly mashes his brother's face to disable the shotgun, but fails to stop short of the final button press that resulted in an instant kill. In the cutscene after the battle, he realizes that his enemy was actually his younger brother, and unlike their other battles, Aeris dies.

That is exactly how it happened.
I was there

 

[Singularly Datarific]

The Video game blame thing seems to have people overreacting and assuming that the games will immediately get the brunt of the blame, wheras any logical consideration could realize that the games could be swapped out with any competitive sport/game that could be played by 2 boys.

 

[creepy_rabbit]

Sigh, the "videogames makes kids go apeshit"thread again is it?
if it was true then more than 90% of the humanity would run around teabagging the corpses of their relatives halo 3 style

 

[runedeadthA]

See. Any game is violent to the media, its all in the wording.

Can that be applied to Viva Pinata?

For those who are upset about people not worrying about the kid dyeing put it this way: I'm a realist. What is one Darwin-Awarded kid vs Six billion people.... Hardly a tragedy. Or maybe I'm just a cynic...

 

[Cid Silverwing]

This is what we call bad parenting. Video games didn't cause the problem at all here. Two young kids got angry, said hey where's daddys gun and POW.

1) Young children being taught how to load and fire a firearm is WRONG.
2) Letting those children know you even have one is just as bad.

Alot of children and teen shootings, heck with some school shootings the shooter was taught by the parent at a young age or informed that they had a gun in the house. Now I don't have concrete evidence to back that statement up of course other than heard from a friend who heard from a friend who heard from their friend, etc. Still though as I mentioned before this is nothing more than bad parenting.

Hear hear. So true I cannot even add to this.

 

[Charli]

Woah a sibling fight over a video game, what a novelty. Love how much emphasis was put on the 'video game' in this.

Siblings argue over ANYTHING, what does it matter what the fight was about, the poor kid who lived is going to live in agony over what happened for the rest of his life... Thats horrible...

This is alot of dangerous circumstances gone completely wrong...

 

[experiment0789]

I blame the father for having his gun in a place where the boy could get his hands on it.

Not only that, but he should also be blamed for teaching his 9 year old how to load and fire a shotgun, that is left where the boy can get it.

I see it as............

1.Blame the father for having his gun in a place where the boy could get his hands on it(like the first guy said)

2.Blame the father for teaching his 9 year old how to load and fire a shotgun(like the second person said)

3.Blame the 9 year old kid for not going to anger management and/or father for not making him go.

I'm pretty sure being right in a/an argument over anything isn't worth a criminal record at the age of 9.

 

[experiment0789]

Woah a sibling fight over a video game, what a novelty. Love how much emphasis was put on the 'video game' in this.

Siblings argue over ANYTHING, what does it matter what the fight was about, the poor kid who lived is going to live in agony over what happened for the rest of his life... Thats horrible...

This is alot of dangerous circumstances gone
completely wrong...

I'm sorry I have to say this................

Siblings argue over ANYTHING this is true,but the fact that it talks about(even if it had nothing to do with it)video game is like giving a portion of Bill Gates money to a dirt-poor hobo.
We all know the whole video game=violence BS has been tossed around in the media before.....Well this is just another attempt to try to prove their bogus clams.

P.s if you are some one,are you know one that is one who believes video games do cause violence......lets talk about it ,I haven't herd what the other side has to say about the argument.

 

[PyroZombie]

Could someone cut off this kid's dick and the father's dick, so this family can't procreate anymore?

Do we need anymore of these idiots?

There are lockable gun cases for reasons, and there are your fists for your brother.