Pastor father says games are the reason his son shot the boy's mother

[cdstephens]

Found an article about it just now.

http://games.ign.com/articles/118/1183727p1.html

Sad that parents are still trying to blame games for their own parenting skills. I'm rather confused why a pastor would keep a handgun in his house that could be easily taken by his son in the first place.

 

[Littlee300]

I heard that boy ate meat celery. Obviously it increased his testosterone so much he become aggressive and killed the first person he saw.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I heard that boy ate meat celery. Obviously it increased his testosterone so much he become aggressive and killed the first person he saw.

I heard that boy watched "TeeVee" at some point in his life. And saw one of them "talking pictures" at the "moo-vees".

 

[DaHero]

The pastor is ridiculous to believe games caused this, and it's more sad that he will be able to go on preaching the good word with such a slanted and closed view.

Yeah I'm a christian, don't need to stir up a hornets nest.

 

[FalloutJack]

Found an article about it just now.

http://games.ign.com/articles/118/1183727p1.html

Sad that parents are still trying to blame games for their own parenting skills. I'm rather confused why a pastor would keep a handgun in his house that could be easily taken by his son in the first place.

Ouch. 'Thou shalt not tempt fate' would make a great 11th Commandment at this point. Or take a lesson in gun safety. That's not the game doing it. That was a lack of the common sense.

 

[Fenn]

I'm Catholic, the stance a lot of religious institutions including my own take on games pisses me off to no end.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

You know what I heard? I heard that Rock N Roll makes kids rebellious and murderers and communists are plotting to take over the states...WOLVERINES! People are always blaming something or someone, espescially in America, no one ever considers that THEY are at fault and immediately blame it one something that's not them. It's drugs, it's television, it's movies' it's music, it's gamesbut it's never the parents, never the society that raised it, never the people who need to be blamed. I have a question, why did he have a loaded handgun lying around? Why didn't he explain to his son what end goes bang? Why couldn't his son know the value of human life? Maybe it's because his parents didn't put any value on his own and decided "what was best for him" without giving him a say.

 

[xxmyhero64xx]

Wait hold on a sec. Was the kids mom an alien? Cause that's what you do in Halo 3. Kill aliens.

 

[Mr Thin]

This is an article on the Escapist.

IT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE.

HOW DID YOU REPOST SOMETHING THAT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE.

Edit: Here we are. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111810-TV-News-Expert-Blame-Violent-Games-For-Teen-Killer]

 

[Superior Mind]

"They put weapons in the hands of our children..."

Who's handgun was it again? Oh, yours? Well that's all right then.

 

[zileas7]

As the article points out, it's easy to understand why the father would blame video games. Heck, looking at the facts, it's hard to argue that they didn't play a part. But that's the thing, they were only a part of whatever drove this kid's actions. Focusing exclusively on him playing video games without bringing up any other factors is what's really the problem here.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

Wait hold on a sec. Was the kids mom an alien? Cause that's what you do in Halo 3. Kill aliens.

Why let facts get in the way of a juicy story?

OT: parents not parenting and using the ever popular scapegoat. not much new here, unfortunately

It would be nice for someone to actually take responsibility for once, but maybe that's asking too much.

EDIT: this is the story on the front page. I didn't make the connection until it was pointed out. No wonder it sounded familiar.

 

[Jadak]

Who cares, he's a pastor not a shrink.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

As the article points out, it's easy to understand why the father would blame video games. Heck, looking at the facts, it's hard to argue that they didn't play a part. But that's the thing, they were only a part of whatever drove this kid's actions. Focusing exclusively on him playing video games without bringing up any other factors is what's really the problem here.

Precisly. Us bad-mouthing the father and saying he's a stupid nut-job for blaming video-games because even though we don't know all the facts about this case we can 100% say that it wasn't the games fault is completely hypocritical on our parts. What has been told to us about this case show that the videogame was the cause of the disagreement that led the son to perform the murder, and when he fled he took the game with him. Even if the game isn't the root cause of the sons shootout it is folly to say it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

I remember hearing of this case when it happened, or at least one with exactly the same circumstances, teen kills mother and injures father over a dispute when they wouldn't allow him to play videogames, and the father was a pastor, and said he forgave his son. At the time the reports all said how the boy played some ridiculous hours of the game, something like 8-10 a day, and the defence for the case argued that apparently when he shot his mum he was mentally in the game, and didn't understand that she wouldn't respawn. I'm pretty certain this is the same case.

 

[thelonewolf266]

Yeah I love the quote "they put weapons in the hands of our kids" that pastor is clearly mentally challenged seeing as they have a family handgun but they think the game is a weapon.And yet people will still say guns make a country safer.Bullshit.

 

[ScrubberDucky]

Breaking: Pastor's credibility reduced to -13 due to the fact that he is a pastor.

 

[cdstephens]

This is an article on the Escapist.

IT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE.

HOW DID YOU REPOST SOMETHING THAT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE.

Edit: Here we are. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111810-TV-News-Expert-Blame-Violent-Games-For-Teen-Killer]

Sorry, I go to IGN for news and only go to the Escapist for the videos. *shrugs*

 

[Dalek Caan]

It always seems to be Halo 3. Anyone else notice this? And how do video games put weapons into their hands. Unless you bludgeon someone to death with a controller.

 

[Traskelion]

Random internet goer says Pastor father was a poor father.

 

[Nieroshai]

The pastor is ridiculous to believe games caused this, and it's more sad that he will be able to go on preaching the good word with such a slanted and closed view.

Yeah I'm a christian, don't need to stir up a hornets nest.

Solidarity quote. I'm sure this's gonna turn into a flame war as soon as the redneck jokes fade.