Teen shot over video game

[Shilo]

Obviously, the kid has severe problems. The two playing probably won't let him play so he decided to shoot one of them. Seems people now days are always trying to find some new way to say that violent video games are bad.

[Buddy4point0]

so the two at home were playing and a third person came and shot them? how would he have even known they were playing god of war. this has nothing to do with video games. way to fail at figuring out whats up

[malgora]

damn is it just me or are kids getting stupider, and smarter with guns, like said above gow doesnt have guns, hes got like extenable knife thinggys, there is a different, now maybe ifthey were playing somethign loke coded arms or cod or moh, then they coulda put it to the game, i play doom all the time i grow up on it, and i havent shot no1, (damnit die) sorry im alright lol jk. parents jut need a little outside time with there kids i think

MALGORA!

(yes im a bit touchy on games and real life murder.... dont connext the 2)

[mcdougall57]

somethings gotta be up in the first place...

[that1guywiththeface]

Don't you just love how possible cases of mental instability are completely overlooked and video games are the auto-scapegoat? Now, thanks to that little s--t, more people hate video games, a family is likely dropping into deppression, and some poor kid is lying in the emergency room with a bullet in his head. I hope the guy pulls through, but at the least he will likely have serious brain damage. The gunner deserves to have his ass kicked in juvie.

[DarthPaul]

I was supposed to play basketball with my friends last week.

But then, an exam was announced for the same day, so I couldn't go and play with them. Now, one of my friends is mad at me because of this. Studies cause problems with your friends! DON'T STUDY!!!

[Joe88]

its texax
everyone has a gun

[Ultima Chocochu]

Poor kid, hope he makes it
I don't know exactly they're trying to insinuate about the game though
Are they saying that GOW, from playing, caused the kid to do it?
Cause there are no guns in it from what I know
And if not that, are they saying it's because he wanted to play?
Either way, the reasons are moronic.

[bah]

I googled and found this (I set the years to 2000 to 2005, 2005 being the most recent year they list, the rest of the options at their defaults): http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus10.html

According to that, for the age group 15-24 (both genders, all races), homicide is the 2nd largest cause of death, of which 81.3% are firearm related.

While I'm not sure how homicide (gun related or not) ranks in other countries, it certainly does seem that Americans like shooting each other. The videogame connection in this incident seems much less worthy of discussion than the level of gun violence that is prevalent throughout the society and what can be done about it.


Don't worry, if you make it to 25-34 your more likely to kill yourself than be killed, by 35-44 then cancer, heart disease, aids and killing yourself are all more likely.
Death statistics: always depressing.

[Avenyet]

that kid is seriously twisted by the sound of thing he wasn't even playing the game and had no interest in it so how could they possibly be linked. maybe just maybe the sound from GOW caused him to go insane and kill people.

emmm its kind of saying that walking past cinema that has its fire door open playing a horror movie will cause someone to go on a killing spree