[Black Wolf]

OH MY GOD!!! Gun crime in the United States!!! What the hell! When did this happen? What is this crazy Bizarro world I've woken up in!!!



You make your bed, you lie in it.

[Grimper]

---- -- --- my real name and --- use- --- real name in any forums.

Also ---- is my cyberna--- Leader name.

People get bor-- when they are sick an- they can't go out---- and talk/play with other people. -- ---- ---- the game was took ---- a month ago. -- -- got bored and --- flipped over by doing nothing but stay in the house.

- ------ --- loneliness made --- do it. (who want to talk to your parents for a month -----------TRANSMISSION LOST

*backs away slowly* 

[ssmit132]

  Er, what?

[BloodEagle]

I approve of the new direction that this thread is heading.

[Snail]

Posting in not-so epic thread.

Seriously Daniel P, why did you do it? Where did you get the bomb?

[Daniel P]

---- -- --- my real name and --- use- --- real name in any forums.

Also ---- is my cyberna--- Leader name.

People get bor-- when they are sick an- they can't go out---- and talk/play with other people. -- ---- ---- the game was took ---- a month ago. -- -- got bored and --- flipped over by doing nothing but stay in the house.

- ------ --- loneliness made --- do it. (who want to talk to your parents for a month -----------TRANSMISSION LOST

*backs away slowly* 

Funny. 

Anybody will get crazy if they had nothing to do for months end. Still I blamed some what to the parents did to him.

@Black Wolf: Gun crime is in every Nation.

[Polpolion]

OH MY GOD!!! Gun crime in the United States!!! What the hell! When did this happen? What is this crazy Bizarro world I've woken up in!!!



You make your bed, you lie in it.

Oh yeah, I forgot. Stuff like this happens everyday. I guess that makes it okay.

[WMCoolmon]

First he didn't just flip out this was something he planned.  The game was taken a month before.  It's not like it was taken 5 minutes ago and he flipped out.  Second if you think that is justification for murder then you need to seek some help and fast. 

Of course! Because using counseling as a below-the-belt insult to win an argument is really going to convince people that they don't need to hide their problems, and there is no social stigma associated with seeking help.

[Grizzly]

If the kid had not possessed a gun, he would have punched his parents regardless...

[dragonsniper]

Why would the dad put the gun in the locker in the first place?

[Grizzly]

Why would the dad put the gun in the locker in the first place?

The gun was already there. The dad considered it the safest place in the house.

[dragonsniper]

Why would the dad put the gun in the locker in the first place?

The gun was already there. The dad considered it the safest place in the house.

I guess that would be a good place. Until you realize that the kid has the key. And why would someone do that?! It's just a game. I'm sure you could find something equally as good with a lower rating that your parents would let you play (something like FreeSpace maybe?...)

[Triple Ace]

People get bored when they are sick and they can't go outside and talk/play with other people. He says that the game was took away a month ago. So he got bored and got flipped over by doing nothing but stay in the house.

I wonder the loneliness made him do it. (who want to talk to your parents for a month and if his friends came over to talk to him)

Boredom is not a good enough excuse. How many other people have you heard about getting sick and then bored enough to pull a stunt like this? That is if they can even pry themselves out of bed. Most sick people have a tendancy to stay in bed. Also, he was not restricted to the house. He first played the game at a friends house, then he snuck out of his house at night to buy the game, which he was old enough to purchase.

I also see the father as a hypocrite. He kept a loaded gun in the house, but would not let his son 17 year old son play a game that has guns in it.

[Nuclear1]

Yeah because keeping a gun for self-defense and playing Halo 3 are one in the same.

[Mars]

I tend to agree with nuclear1, the two aren't really comparable.

I do think the father was probably out of his right to deny the game, but it certainly wasn't something that made him deserve what happened to him. There's obviously more to this than many seem to be making of it.

[dragonsniper]

I do think the father was probably out of his right to deny the game

Lot's of parents won't let their kids play Halo 3 (and sometimes for good reasons.) It just depends on the family structure and what the parents think of the game.

but it certainly wasn't something that made him deserve what happened to hims.

Agreed.

Boredom is not a good enough excuse. How many other people have you heard about getting sick and then bored enough to pull a stunt like this?

None.

[Nuclear1]

I think the dad had every right to deny the game. People ***** and moan about parents blaming gaming companies and TV for broadcasting violence, and so this father did the responsible thing: parented.

[Mars]

Meh, the only reason I disagree is because in less than a year, that kid could have bought whatever he wanted. It seems silly to have that much restriction when it can't be maintained

[karajorma]

I think the dad had every right to deny the game. People ***** and moan about parents blaming gaming companies and TV for broadcasting violence, and so this father did the responsible thing: parented.

While I would usually agree with you, if his father did as the article suggest and removed Halo 3 from the kid cause he believed it was too sexually explicit then he wasn't playing with a full deck either. I've not played the 3rd one but if it's anything like the first two then either that quote referred to other games or we're dealing with the sort of person who complains about the Venus de Milo being naked.

While I'm the first to complain about bad parenting, enforcing arbitary rules which the child knows make little sense isn't good parenting either.

[Polpolion]

While I would usually agree with you, if his father did as the article suggest and removed Halo 3 from the kid cause he believed it was too sexually explicit then he wasn't playing with a full deck either. I've not played the 3rd one but if it's anything like the first two then either that quote referred to other games or we're dealing with the sort of person who complains about the Venus de Milo being naked.

The article said that the father thought it was both too violent and sexually explicit. And from what I know of media, I'd sooner say that the media took what the father said out of context than say that the father is crazy.