Halo Killer Sentenced to Life

[bue519]

I blame halo not all video games!(nah I kid)

People also shouldn't be keeping guns in an easy to get and loaded.

Exactly it should be a call for better gun control. Jesus people if you insist on owning a gun and have kids lock them up. The gun was in a lockbox, an UNLOCKED lockbox, WTF is that?? Oh quick before the anti-NRA gets on our asses we'll blame games instead.

Gun safety isn't anti NRA dood. Most people are just lazy (go figure) and don't bother locking them up, and then they wonder how little Billy shot himself.

 

[Samman]

If not videogames it would have been something else. People don't go batshit crazy because they play video games a lot. Either you're a nutcase or you're not.

 

[Alleged_Alec]

It had to do with addiction. From What I can gather the kid was either plain out psycho or was addicted to halo, and if it was the latter his parents taking it away would trigger an event like this. that's not saying it was the games fault, if he had been addicted to a movie or a TV show and his parents took it away the same thing could have happened.

Bollocks to that, I say. People don't draw a gun on someone unless they're already fucked up. His 'addiction' had nothing to do with this.

 

[Darkblazer]

But why was the lockbox unlocked, and the kid have the experience with a gun to load it with ammo (If the gun was in the box loaded that's even worse) and fire it? Videogames are the fault my ass, it's always psycho people.

The kid looks like he's in his late teens, and the fact that he's addicted to video games, i'm pretty sure he knows where the bullets go and what end fires the hurt out.

 

[Zephyr892]

That's what a life sentence is... It's not actually "life". Varying on the nation it's 7-20 years in most cases. The US gave him an indeterminate life sentence.

Quite frankly I'm more perturbed by the judges comments.

 

[squid5580]

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

It had to do with addiction. From What I can gather the kid was either plain out psycho or was addicted to halo, and if it was the latter his parents taking it away would trigger an event like this. that's not saying it was the games fault, if he had been addicted to a movie or a TV show and his parents took it away the same thing could have happened.

Wow I love the world today. We can blame everything on addiction. Lets just take any personal responsibility and throw it out the window. Soon gamers are gonna be at the corners of Gamestop lookin for thier next fix. Maybe grind up those DVDs and snort them. Use the instruction books as rolling papers and smoke them puppies.

 

[sneak_copter]

I find it odd that his father requested leniency despite being shot by him. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Nobody wants to see their child in jail for life.

If my kid shot me I would.

Seriously. Somebody as disturbed as that doesn't deserve anything less.

 

[bue519]

I'm not sure what treatment you could do for a sociopath. I would be that he tortures small animals, and wet his bed to a late age. I would say he's better off behind bars, I wouldn't want to find out what he does next after someone sets him off by doing some miniscule action.

Well youre painting him as completely hopeless. He is still young and has a chance for rehabilitation. I dont think people with mental disorders should just be locked up, this isnt the turn of the century we have modern psychiatric methods for people like this. Then again i am on my way to becoming a psychiatrist myself so i might be a bit biased.

Well, then I wish you luck on your career path. I just don't think that there is a cure for sociopathic behavior. Now I don't think that he should be sent to a normal prison, as that would on exacerbate the behavior. However, I don't believe he should be released while he still exhibits these behaviors, I mean for Christ sakes he tried to pin the crime on his father.

 

[Internet Kraken]

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 whole thing reeks of stupidity. The kid killing his parents was stupid. The parents leaving the gun box unlocked was stupid. The judge's comments on video games was stupid.

 

[Xvito]

You know what would be awesome?

If every time someone was shot, the people making/selling the guns would be held responsible...

Also, gun control is good for you.

 

[squid5580]

I blame halo not all video games!(nah I kid)

People also shouldn't be keeping guns in an easy to get and loaded.

Exactly it should be a call for better gun control. Jesus people if you insist on owning a gun and have kids lock them up. The gun was in a lockbox, an UNLOCKED lockbox, WTF is that?? Oh quick before the anti-NRA gets on our asses we'll blame games instead.

Gun safety isn't anti NRA dood. Most people are just lazy (go figure) and don't bother locking them up, and then they wonder how little Billy shot himself.

No but the anti-NRA could use this as yet another example to ban all guns. I understand the NRA would and should be wanting to take the father behind the woodshed for a good beating for being so bloody stupid.

 

[Hazy]

The media is going to gobble this one up like a Thanksgiving Dinner..

 

[squid5580]

You know what would be awesome?

If every time someone was shot, the people making/selling the guns would be held responsible...

Also, gun control is good for you.

That is like blaming FORD everytime someone gets drunk and behind the wheel. Millions of people can drive sober and not have an accident but that 1 moron who gets drunk and kills someone is not the manufacturers fault. If you have a gun it should be locked up. You can't blame them because you are to damn stupid not to.

 

[Aries_Split]

Did the kid drink orange juice?

Yes.

And he killed his parents?

Yes.

HOLY FUCK ORANGE JUICE CAUSED HIM TO KILL HIS PARENTS!!!!

Grow up.


Come on people.

 

[black lincon]

It had to do with addiction. From What I can gather the kid was either plain out psycho or was addicted to halo, and if it was the latter his parents taking it away would trigger an event like this. that's not saying it was the games fault, if he had been addicted to a movie or a TV show and his parents took it away the same thing could have happened.

Bollocks to that, I say. People don't draw a gun on someone unless they're already fucked up. His 'addiction' had nothing to do with this.

yes yes it did. if fact it had everything to do with it. the addiction acted as a trigger. he believed he needed halo, and when it was taken away he was furious and not thinking straight. he took the gun and killed his mother over the game, and then shot his father. the addiction was a trigger, and your right you, he was a little messed up to begin with, this kid was obviously out of reality and more messed up than just becoming addicted. he most likely had anger issues and lacked tools to deal with the anger.

However, the addiction was the trigger. if he hadn't been addicted to something he would have never had anything to be taken away and never had anything to kill over. what he was addicted to is irrelevant and if your argument is that videogames don't cause violence, then your using the wrong argument, this is about addiction, and as several staff members here can attest to, you can get addicted to games.

once again, he had other problems, but the trigger was his addiction, what caused the murder was his addiction.

 

[GothmogII]

"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."

Okaaaaaay. I never realised game addiction made you unaware that killing people means they're gone for good. Maybe he assumed they'd just 'respawn' sheesh.

I feel really bad for his family. Although, I thought they didn't give out life imprisonment if you were under 18? (Though I may be thinking of the death penalty). I guess they felt it was serious enough to warrant it, though as some others in the thread have said, he's young and perhaps not beyond rehabilitation.

 

[black lincon]

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

It had to do with addiction. From What I can gather the kid was either plain out psycho or was addicted to halo, and if it was the latter his parents taking it away would trigger an event like this. that's not saying it was the games fault, if he had been addicted to a movie or a TV show and his parents took it away the same thing could have happened.

Wow I love the world today. We can blame everything on addiction. Lets just take any personal responsibility and throw it out the window. Soon gamers are gonna be at the corners of Gamestop lookin for thier next fix. Maybe grind up those DVDs and snort them. Use the instruction books as rolling papers and smoke them puppies.

Read what I said to the other guy and stop being so smug in your lack of knowledge.

 

[Internet Kraken]

You know what would be awesome?

If every time someone was shot, the people making/selling the guns would be held responsible...

Also, gun control is good for you.

Wow, that makes sense.

Oh wait, no it doesn't. The people who made the gun are not responsible. The people who left the gun in an unlocked lock box are responsible.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Interestingly, the judge did express serious reservations about the impact of videogames 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 these games 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."

BULL! FUCKING! SHIT!

Being a psychopath that would kill his parents over a game IS NOT caused by video games! What the hell is that old geezer thinking? As far as I'm concerned, that idiot could have done it over ANYTHING! People are driving me crazy these days...