Boy Kills Brother After Videogame Argument

[TiteAce]

Great, more people letting their unstable kids play videogames that cant handle it and turn to this shit. Now games get a little more shit for them jerks to complain about, like that one lawyer... Watch your damn kids and teach them values, win or lose enjoy, and thou shall not kill or threaten his brother with a gun... Lame, just more issues to blame on games.

 

[Mackinator]

A terrible shame. The whole blame game can wait. Im sure the father feels bad enough...

 

[linkmastr001]

Wow, why does everyone enjoy finding some kind of scapegoat when things like this happen... like videogames

I blame the two kids and father for the unfortunate death of the child

 

[Nargleblarg]

OH FUCK GET TO COVER the gaming industry will probably be attacked (again) for the acts of a clearly insane 9 year old but I now wonder which game will be blamed first......and (god hope this doesn't happen) if Jack Thompson will protest on it.

 

[asinann]

The game most likely for this is a sports title.

That is why it's an "unknown game," you can't link a sports game with violence or you are linking the sport itself with violence.

And that gun should have been locked up or put too high for a 9 year old to reach it.

Scratch I just read the child part.

I'm not accusing you of anything here, but why are the lives of children so much more important than the lives of adults? I mean, yes, children are viewed as "innocents" and they have their whole lives ahead of them but it's not like adult victims are somehow "guilty" and don't have people, often children, depending on them.

"Think of the children!" bugs me.

Nobody is innocent, your birth certificate is proof of your guilt.

 

[Pendragon9]

May that innocent child rest in peace. And may the journalists who covered this story burn in a fire.

Seriously, the dumbass of a father leaves a gun lying around and video games are to blame? Someone forgot to take their anti-retard pills this morning.

 

[daedrick]

sad, really, cant imagine it... I mean, he is barely 10, and he killed his younger brother, how in the hell can he live with it for the rest of his life. Its gonna be hard, thats for sure...

sigh

 

[Nouw]

TARDCHECKED.

Thank you Darrious Finley for removing yourself from the Gene Pool.

I love how people say that. I mean, a child just got killed, no one seems to be mourning the loss of a FUCKING 9 YEAR OLD CHILD!! Everyone asking who's to blame, and some people are even praising the fact that the kid is dead.

Am I the only one that thinks that's just a bit sick?

No you're not. But the thing thats more sick is that a father of two left a frikkin shot gun lying around a house.
I bet the media is like crawling all over this article. STOP BLAMING VIDEO GAMES BLAME THE DAD!!!
Whats more dangerous? A shot gun or a video game?
A FRIKKIN SHOT GUN WITH AMMO!

 

[Wafflestomper99]

I agree with everyone in saying it's the parents faults: The gun was easily accessed without the parents consent, either loaded or the ammunition was readily available as well, and the stupid kids had experience with it. And it's the video games fault? Right.

 

[trust Milo]

i didn't read all the comments, but why have a gun in the house when you have kids. the result has been seen before

 

[Aries_Split]

I wonder why the press insists on making this Boy Kills brother over video game argument rather than just boy accidently killed over argument.

kind of disgusting, no?

 

[Blood_Lined]

So, the younger kid loses at a video game, then goes and gets a shotgun and loads it as a bad joke (OH HI PARENTS). And the older brother takes it away from him, the gun going off in the process.

It sounds like an accidental suicide, due to their father's negligence in securing his firearms.

Oh, wait, I mean:

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.

...I can't add to this. It's too perfect. Even to the point of being hilarious, despite how tragic the actual event itself was.

 

[DrunkWithPower]

Older brother to younger brother: pwn'd again

 

[similar.squirrel]

I blame the kid for sucking at ga...
No.
But who the hell teaches their 9 year old child to use a shotgun?

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

It annoys the hell out of me when the blame always go to video games. Once I read in a ps3 magazine that a mc donalds manager blamed games for childhood obesity. I blame the father and the child who loaded the gun

 

[Druss the Legend]

I dunno guys. Sad and all, but we just lost a child who thought the best solution to losing at a video game was to load a weapon and threaten his brother.

You mean your brothers don't do that? Jeez, one of mine would try and knife me while the other would kidney punch me if I ever won that much.

My sister broke my nose with a broken ceiling fan blade.

I broke my brothers nose with a plastic policeman's helmet. My brother's 6 years older then me, I felt like batman or something.

I smashed my brother in the face with my fist, of course i was pretending and had a poor judgement of distance, he's had nosebleeds ever since.

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.

I dunno, i heard of a guy who stomped on someone because they played Super Mario to much, but i believe the guy was just a nutter and the media linked it with super mario somehow.

 

[SultanP]

Why the hell do people keep blaming the father? The boy obviously wanted something to hurt his brother with, and if he had gotten a knife instead, one of them could just as easily have been killed when they were fighting over it. Neither the father or the videogame is to blame here. The problem is the boy and his anger issues. If he couldn't find a weapon he'd probably just have grabbed a random heavy object and tried to hurt his brother with that instead.
Think a bit before you start displacing the blame, people.

 

[space_oddity]

Actually I disagree on the bit about teaching a 9 year old to load and fire guns. I feel it should be taught as early as five. But also along with this, should be taught a very strong respect for firearms, not just how to use them. I feel firearms education should be included in school all the way up until college as part of phys-ed and required for progression between grades and graduation.

But then again I'm very pro-gun and think pretty much everyone should walk around with a gun on their belt and know how to use it.

*That* said, the situation is messed up. It does make me wonder what else was going on in the household since even at that age it sounds like the video games might just have been a breaking point to other tensions.

Of course this is assuming that a 9 year old has the capacity to murder and try and cover it up. See, from the way this reads to me the authorities seem to be trying to force the case to fit the "evidence" as they see it.

I wasn't there so it's hard to say, but any way you look at it the situation is messed up.

As far as where the gun was, well all comments by liberals about firearms "safety" aside, during a home invasion the bad guys aren't going to wait to let you unlock your gun, unlock your ammo on the other side of the house, and then load your gun.

Truthfully a feel a few isolated incidents, even involving children (which aren't that common overall, they are just heavily reported by the media) are a small price to pay for the right to keep and bear arms.

>>>----Therumancer--->

I respect yout position on firearms, but must disagree with the notion of teaching children how to use guns. You wouldnt teach a 5 year old how to start a fire, tell them it is unsafe and trust in their rationality not to burn down your house. Children simply havent developed judgement and risk management at that age.
Also, i hope you are not suggesting that you would defend your house from burgulars with a shotgun. No court of law would acknowledge such a murder as self defence unless the victim was pointing a loaded gun at you or your family. Unless you are aiming your gun at an animal you intend to eat or something that intends to eat you, you are using your gun irresponsibly.

Back on topic, the problem with this situation is firearm safety and careless if not brazenly irresponsible parenting. There is absolutrly no excuse for a child to have access to a gun. No excuse.

 

[KaiusCormere]

The father is responsible. Also, teaching a 5 year old to use guns is ridiculous, and I hope you never try to do that.