[Triple Ace]

This is serioulsy messed up. He sneaks out of the house and buys the game. Then, when he got caught with it, his father locked it up in a lock box along with a loaded handgun. He gets the key, unlocks the box, takes the game and gun, and shoots his parents killing his mother and severely wounding his father. He then tries to place the gun in his faters hands and then takes off.

This is the kind of crap that gives people like Jack Thompson fuel. Read the full story.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/boy_killed_mom_and_shot_dad_ov.html

[neoterran]

I mean, they took away Halo 3 man ! Maybe he was on that last level, that's a real pain at the end there... 

[Dilmah G]

What a ****ing retard, my parents made me wait till the end of the week it came out to play it



and I'm still here, and so are my parents, mother****er deserves to go and rot in jail, ITS JUST A GAME!

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Stick him in a jail cell for the rest of his life with nothing but a TV (no cable or antenna) and an X-box with one game.  Guess what game.  It should become a very boring life after about 2 days. 

[MP-Ryan]

At 16, I wouldn't call him a kid.  There's a big difference between an 8 year old ho may not understand the full consequences of his actions and a 16 year old who should be perfectly able to.

However, there is a large cultural component to this.  Shootings like that don't happen in countries where weapons are not an integrated part of the culture.

[Nuclear1]

This...wow.

[Dark Hunter]

On the one hand, it probably wasn't the wisest choice to lock the game in a box with a loaded handgun with a very angry and emotionally unstable teen in the house...

Not that I'm excusing the boy's actions in the slightest. I... honestly cannot find the words to express my horror and outrage at this. This is truly ludicrous.

Another bad thing though is that it's going to give all those anti-videogame activists that much more ammo. Soon it'll be Halo (and, by extension, all videogames) that killed the mother, not some ****ing stupid kid throwing a tantrum, just you wait.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

On the one hand, it probably wasn't the wisest choice to lock the game in a box with a loaded handgun with a very angry and emotionally unstable teen in the house...

Another bad thing though is that it's going to give all those anti-videogame activists that much more ammo. Soon it'll be Halo (and, by extension, all videogames) that killed the mother, not some ****ing stupid kid throwing a tantrum, just you wait.

Agree...

Not that I'm excusing the boy's actions in the slightest. I... honestly cannot find the words to express my horror and outrage at this. This is truly ludicrous.

Disagree. Incidents like this are bound to happen in a country where there is no complete restriction on firearms possession.

I wouldn't say it was ludicrous after the university shooting incident. I would say that it makes me think of the chamberpot.

[Rick James]

Well, ****. All the Jack Thompson-alikes in the States are going to be aaallllll over this one.

[Scuddie]

It's not firearms restriction.  Firearms restriction is bad, m'kay (look at the UK and Washington, DC)?  The problem is the lack of education in firearms.

Oh, and Halo too.  The kid probably played Halo and enjoyed it, thus manifesting a physical brain disease.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

What, his staph infection? What is that anyway? I just looked it up on Wikipedia, but the article there seems to imply a by-product of food poisoning...

[Scuddie]

Staph infection?  Who said anything about a staph infection?  The kid's brain reacted so poorly to the sheer amount of stupid contained in such a small package.  The only protection it had was to kill most of itself off to prevent his head exploding in a divide-by-zero method of unintelligence.

[achtung]

I really think there was a bit more going on with this guy than "I don't get my game so I'm going to shoot people."  Of course that's the simple story, so that's what everyone will be told.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They did report that he had a snowboarding accident a month before the shooting that resulted in a staph infection, I think.

[NGTM-1R]

Staphylococcus is the name, I think. Bacterial infection usually caused by uncleaned wound. Not sure how that could matter.

Silence, Scuddie.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Staff is a common bacterial infection that most people probably have right now.  The problem occurs when either a  certain resistant strain hits or it gets into the bloodstream.  Then it can kill. 

Either way a snowboarding accident and a staff infection are no reason to develop a mental condition where you shoot someone over a video game even if your board for a year because of it.  Maybe it was just diagnosed and he had a 108 fever an was delusional or something but not after being treated.  Now developing depression because of it is a possibility but still shooting someone for a video game.  There had to be problems before the accident. 

Oh and for you people with the video game and guns are bad would you feel better if the kid had used a sword over a baseball glove?

[eliex]

That guy is an idiot. He crossed the line.

[BloodEagle]

He must have part-timed at the local post office.

[Ford Prefect]

I really think there was a bit more going on with this guy than "I don't get my game so I'm going to shoot people."  Of course that's the simple story, so that's what everyone will be told.

Hey, I found the only comment in the thread that makes any sense. Do I get a treat or something?

[Polpolion]

lol @ irony

cry @ everything else

EDIT: You know what? I'm not going to blame this on video games or guns, I'm going to blame a mal-formed relationship between the parent's and the kid. I don't know what might have caused this relationship, but:

A) People don't get that angry about a video game under normal circumstances. Even teenagers don't get angry enough to ****ing shoot both of their parents because they took a game he's been playing for a few hours.

B) The game was taken away from him in September, yet he shot his parents a month later. Even if he was angry enough to shoot his parents when it was taken away from him, that anger wouldn't have lasted a month unless something else was happening.

C) He was recovering from a staph infection. Being home-ridden for a long time, tensions build up, on top of the stress of being sick itself. But judging by the fact that he was able to sneak out and by the game, the only thing affecting him was just starting being able to go back outside. My guess is that his parents wanted him to take it easy more, but Daniel felt well enough to go out and do stuff, that disagreement causing bad friction.