Teen shot over video game

[LilSwish722]

Haha. Diablo II is a point and click adventure game that'd make him do that :P

[maxipower90]

i lol at these things.

1 there isnt even pistols in God of war if im correct and
2 it took place in America were you can buy shops so whose to blame

ban the guns = stop the killing. really now what purpose does civilians have owning guns. farmers may need them for poachers but thats it

[that1guywiththeface]

to the above poster:

ban all guns = stop the killing

WRONG!!!!!!

All that would do is switch the weapons to illegally obtained/owned firearms and knives. Also, I don't know what country you're from, but the Amercian Bill of Rights clearly states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.

In layman's terms, nobody's gonna take my gun from me unless I become a felon.

Violence will always be here(unfortunatley), but the ways it is done will continue to change.

[wind_mill]

1. Parents should have kept the gun secure and out of the reach of the teenager.

2. Unless the kid fashioned some blades of chaos with some kitchen knives and chains, God of War cannot be blamed at all.

3. He should not have been playing God Of War in the first place.

4.

when the 13-year-old decided to retrieve bullets for a gun, which was already out

Apparently the kid knew how to load a gun. he could not have picked this up from a game with an absence of firearms.


Its sad to see that video games are continually blamed for real world violence.

[darkness angel 777]

he shouldn't have been playing that game in the first place its
rated mature for a reason.MATURE people play these games.

[Broadus]

It's terrible that some crazy kid shot another kid for no reason, and hopefully the kid who got shot can recover, but it's obvious that the video game had nothing to do with anything.
What did the other boy on the couch do? How come he didn't get shot? Not that it's a bad thing that he didn't.
And who left the gun out?

[Eviltaco64]

What does God of War have to do with guns?

[fg-54]

God of War? Hate to break it to you, but GoW has no guns. Sad attempt.

[Turbolence]

Amazing. News bias will make the story sound however they want it to sound.

A more neutral article on the issue:
http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=8016717

I can't believe that people are still trying to pawn off bad parenting and lack of responsibility on video games. Anger, aggression, violence, these are NOT things that video games create. It's the atmosphere a kid is in. Also, if you read that article, note how the shooter asked the other kid to take the victim's body and dump it in a barrel out back (7th paragraph). Clearly something was very wrong with this boy from the start.

[djbrotherson]

F'D

Once again, parents fault