Halo Killer Sentenced to Life

[Dark assassin for hire]

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that's... f+++ed up. and sad kinda. that kid must be a huge... nerd to attempt to kill his parents, and most likely kinda dumb.(doing that over halo 3?)
not trying to be mean to the accused.

 

[Halfang]

Blame the game, and not the gun or the father for having it.

Oh the irony.

 

[LANCE420]

He actually killed to play that shitty game? I wouldn't have a raging threesome with two Brazilian supermodels to get to play that terribleness. Well, I would; It would be a downer though.

The way i see it, its just an attempt to shift the blame from inadequate gun control laws. The americans can't lose their guns now can they. Lets blame all the violence on games instead of giving out guns like candy.

This could have been easily avoided if the box the gun was in was locked.

This could have been avoided if the guy had no gun. What, was he scared the king of england was going to come and start pushing him around?

Keep guns in the hands of the police and armed forces not millions of retarded americans too stupid to even lock up a gun.

No gun control+retarded parents=videogames are evil and must be banned

As a American, I would simply like to invite the writers to each hire two hookers to slap him/her around and throw them into the nearest convenient river or lake, and to please refrain from meddling in our domestic affairs. I hope you learn when things go to hell, the "police and armed services" are going to be gone and saving themselves and their loved ones. They won't care about their cities, posts, commanders, and they'll care even less about you.

Oh yeah, at least America has never *ever* banned a movie or game due to it's content. unlike our "open-minded" European counterparts.

Also, Americans stopped caring about the Simpsons years ago, so that earlier quote might seem original but most assuredly it is not.
I might be droning now, but what the hell happened to creativity?!?! Why must everyone here rip off American pop culture or Yahtzee?

 

[garjian]

i dont see how anyone can like halo 3 that much...
its shit... minus infection custom games every-so-often... and even that requires friend which (i have my suspicions) this guy probably lacked...

but this is why having guns in your house is probably not the best idea america... though im sure your going to tell me it is...
mentally unstable people are probably a hazard and allowing them a gun doesnt seem like the best of ideas... (especially considering the rate of domestic violence which i can only imagine being much worse with a gun involved?)

but its definately not the games fault... the only thing i could possibly be guilty of is suggesting he uses a gun... this kids just insane... too attached to a posession... and its no more than that...
the same thing can easily be imagined with mobile phones, or maybe a hamburger (for you guys out west)

 

[King_Pickles]

If that was my son...id want him to spend life in jail probably because if he was set free i would most likely kill him myself.

same or i wouldnt want him to get life so i have the pleasure of doing it quicker

 

[ThePhobicMan]

He must have really wanted that game.

 

[True Nero]

sadfully, i've had experiences with electronic stimulation... but i truly think that if a man kills over a video game, there are deeper problems at hand

 

[Syphonz]

"And I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea, at the time he hatched this plot, that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."

So the Judge is naive enough to honestly believe this kid thinks when you die, you see a respawn timer?..... God dammit..

 

[Piotr621]

Halo Killer Sentenced to Life

Daniel Petric, the teenager who killed his mother and wounded his father after they refused to let him verb Variable A has been sentenced to life in prison.

Petric purchased Varaible A and tried to sneak it into his house despite being told by his parents that he wasn't allowed to own or verb Variable A. They caught him and took Variable A away; in response, Petric shot them with a 9 mm handgun his father kept in an unlocked lock box, killing his mother and severely wounding his father, and then tried to pin the murder on his father.

Petric's attorneys admitted their client had pulled the trigger but shifted the blame onto his youth and "Variable A addiction," which they said diminished his responsibility for the crime. The judge in the case rejected the claim as a valid defense when he found Petric guilty of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder and despite a request for leniency from the teen's father sentenced him today to life in prison for the attack, with eligibility for parole in 23 years.

Interestingly, the judge did express serious reservations about the impact of Variable A on the mental well-being of kids in January when he announced the guilty verdict and said he believed they were in large part responsible for turning Petric into a killer. "It's my firm belief that after a while the same physiological responses occur that occur in the ingestion of some drugs. And I believe that an addiction to Variable A can do the same thing," he said. "And I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea, at the time he hatched this plot, that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever."

The judge also implied at the time that he didn't necessarily consider the guilty verdict the end of the matter. "I believe there is hope here," he continued. "I believe that it will start here and at some point, when all is known about Daniel and what occurred here, we will be able to achieve a greater sense of justice."




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Do you know what I'm getting at? Replace Variable A with anything you want.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

I don't think this had anything to do with video games! it was just a child being a spoiled brat!

This!
Actually I was about set to say "Yay judges are finally getting that playing videogames doesn't make you a mass murderer", but then I read his statement and went "Blast you non gaming people with your fear of new art mediums!"

 

[Dooly95]

I hope you learn when things go to hell, the "police and armed services" are going to be gone and saving themselves and their loved ones. They won't care about their cities, posts, commanders, and they'll care even less about you.

Oh yeah, at least America has never *ever* banned a movie or game due to it's content. unlike our "open-minded" European counterparts.

When things go to hell, I doubt a pistol would do much against a horde of the damned.

And people wonder why Americans are violent.

 

[Druss the Legend]

I hate it when people blame video games, there are about 10 million people playing on xbox live, imagine how many people arent or own some other form of console playing games. And one nutjob decides to kill someone over a video game everyones up in arms. ITS THE PERSON NOT THE GAME YOU RETARDS!!!

 

[PurpleRain]

As a American, I would simply like to invite the writers to each hire two hookers to slap him/her around and throw them into the nearest convenient river or lake, and to please refrain from meddling in our domestic affairs. I hope you learn when things go to hell, the "police and armed services" are going to be gone and saving themselves and their loved ones. They won't care about their cities, posts, commanders, and they'll care even less about you.

Two things: Firstly, 'when things go to hell'? You've been watching too many movies. I will at least grant you that. When zombies are going to attack, the gun store will be the first place I'll go. Otherwise, in normal land, I can't find a situation where society crumbles into man eat man.

Also, Americans stopped caring about the Simpsons years ago, so that earlier quote might seem original but most assuredly it is not.
I might be droning now, but what the hell happened to creativity?!?! Why must everyone here rip off American pop culture or Yahtzee?

Many Americans still care for the Simpsons, so you shouldn't really cluster your race into one catagory.

Plus I don't understand your last point about creativity. I still find so much ripe creativity occuring these days. Of course everything has been done before... back in Ancient Greece. But for American Pop Culture and Yahtzee? I find people generally copy British Pop Culture and only a small number of people know about Mr Crowshaw.

 

[I Max95]

its not the video game that did this if your a level headed person you shouldnt let violence in games get to you but if your a video game addicted sociopath of course it will

video games dont effect peoples personality
peoples personality effect what games they play

 

[Rickyvantof]

There aren't any 9mm pistols in Halo, are there?
Nor is the object of the game killing your parents.