kid not allowed to play Halo 3: kills mom, shoots dad

they focus far too much on the halo thing in that article, seems to me to be media bs at its best... possibly taking the game away was the straw that broke the camels back but thats probably its only involvement...

sexually explicit :confused:
 
So if he was allowed to play the game two less people would have been shot. I hope this is quoted next time people blame video games for violence. In this case it clear gaming would have stopped violence.
 
"His father forbade the games, saying that were too violent and sexually explicit."

I want some of these sex fueled games!

I think Id be more inclined to shoot them if they made me play halo. I like how they report it as if everything was fine and normal then one day they stopped him playing halo and that was the sole cause of all his actions.
 
Margaret said:
Sad story, but that is what happens when you keep guns in your home...
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what has keeping guns at home got anything to do with this ?

If there was no gun he would have used a knife or something else . Gun owners have enough problems withought people like you spouting rubbish like this

Persil
 
Well i was roaming around in home on the PS3 last night so i think i will go to the metro centre in gateshead tonight and ask a few women if they will give me a b***job.
When i get arrested i can always say it was home on the PS3 that was the cause of my problem.
 
Persil said:
what has keeping guns at home got anything to do with this ?

If there was no gun he would have used a knife or something else . Gun owners have enough problems withought people like you spouting rubbish like this

Persil
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Heh, a new type of fanboy. Gun fanboy.

Anyway keeping guns in the home has EVERYTHING to do with this. It was in the very same box the game was in. Chances are with no gun there that kid would have not shot his parents.

If you are going to defend something you love at least put some thought in it :rolleyes:
 
No lack of thought .. I did read the article . I keep certain items in my gun cabinet as well .
The guy was a nutjob and gun or no gun he would have used another weapon . The cabinet was locked and he took his fathers key .

It was a poor desicion to leave or put the game in the same place as the gun but it still has nothing to do with keeping guns at home .

Im sure we could discuss this all day but people are to quick to blame gun owners . Maybe drop the blame at dodgy parenting/weird religeons (sp) or just staying the US :p

Persil
 
Yeah I see what you mean. I have no problems myself with US laws allowing guns. While I can't even start to think what was going through the crazy kids head, he took the key to get to his game, happened to be a gun there as well, anger going through the kid "I'm 16 and my Dad won't let me kill aliens!!!", "going to take this gun and pop a cap in both of their asses!!!!11!!".
 
Margaret said:
Sad story, but that is what happens when you keep guns in your home...
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nope, this is what happens when you dont have your guns in a secure place.

now this is what happens when you ban law-abiding citizens from having guns:

http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/rkba/violence_increase_with_British_gun_ban.htm

its a common mis-conception that the ability for the populace to aquire guns legally increases crime, it actually increases crime when you make guns illegal for everyone because the criminals, funnily enough, dont care what the law states. Where as people like me do, so when the criminal comes into your house, you now have to phone 999 and hope that he doesnt kill you or your family instead of the criminal being worried that you have a 9mm in a quick-access safe.

go look at the statistics, the states/countries with minimal gun laws have less crime, the states with gun laws where you cannot carry have crazy ammounts of crime i.e. LA, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, because the criminals know that you wont be able to defend your self and your family...

anyway, back on topic, what intrigues me is that the story advises he is on trial without a jury, but the constitution specifically states that if you are accused of a crime you will face a jury of your peers, which this 17 year old maniac has been denied.
 
Streeteh said:
Wow, what a completely unbiased article.

The legality of guns argument will never come to an end, there's always evidence backing up each persons views if they look hard enough and because of this neither side will ever back down.
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I agree, but the pro-gun lot will win as they will just shoot the anti-gun lot in the head ;)
 
Streeteh said:
Wow, what a completely unbiased article.

The legality of guns argument will never come to an end, there's always evidence backing up each persons views if they look hard enough and because of this neither side will ever back down.
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LMAO agreed, nice source. ;)

Pointless feuding about it. The kid was mental no doubt about it, you can't prove either way that if the gun was there or not he'd have still killed his parents.

I'm to the feeling that he saw the gun and took it as an excuse to use it. If they'd hid the game in a knife drawer you'd might have had another outcome. Who knows? Who cares?
 
yeah i agree theirs arguments on boths sides, but i reckon regardless the kid had some sort of issues and as Ordero says, who knows if he would have used a knife, brick or a cattle prod if the gun hadnt of been there.
 
Keltik THC said:
nope, this is what happens when you dont have your guns in a secure place.

now this is what happens when you ban law-abiding citizens from having guns:

http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/rkba/violence_increase_with_British_gun_ban.htm

its a common mis-conception that the ability for the populace to aquire guns legally increases crime, it actually increases crime when you make guns illegal for everyone because the criminals, funnily enough, dont care what the law states. Where as people like me do, so when the criminal comes into your house, you now have to phone 999 and hope that he doesnt kill you or your family instead of the criminal being worried that you have a 9mm in a quick-access safe.

go look at the statistics, the states/countries with minimal gun laws have less crime, the states with gun laws where you cannot carry have crazy ammounts of crime i.e. LA, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, because the criminals know that you wont be able to defend your self and your family...

anyway, back on topic, what intrigues me is that the story advises he is on trial without a jury, but the constitution specifically states that if you are accused of a crime you will face a jury of your peers, which this 17 year old maniac has been denied.
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The point is if everyone has guns then criminals are forced to use guns. That means you are more likely to get shot because they will be more likely to be trigger happy.;

Do you really think you stand a better chance against a criminal breaking into your house if hes forced to bring a gun and the chances are you dont go around with one in your jeans.

That is simply an obserd arguement. Id sooner rather a robber with a knife then one with a gun thinkingn i may haev a gun.
 
Keltik THC said:
its a common mis-conception that the ability for the populace to aquire guns legally increases crime, it actually increases crime when you make guns illegal for everyone because the criminals, funnily enough, dont care what the law states. .
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except that's not really true is it? by your reasoning there should be much higher rates of gun crime/crime in general in the uk than there is in America, which there isn't.

places like somalia should be god damn utopia's by this reasoning.
 
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i playd perfect dark (18) when i was 9, am i gonna kill people no, sure i occasionally shoot at birds to excocise my pent up violent mind gaine d form video games but that doesnt make me crazy right....

seriously if a video game or movie effects someone in a way that causes them to react like that then they are insane in the first place, in all these life imtimitating art causes the killer is normally insane. manhunt anyone?
 
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