14 year old shoots parents over violent video games

That's really not true at all, their culture is much more anti-violence than the West.

 

You're not taking into account though all of the murders and immoral behavior that are influenced indirectly by the media glamorizing violence.

I mean look at the black community - 50% of homicides and 35% of rapes are committed by blacks, even though blacks only make up 13% of the US population. Try telling me that violent media such as gangsta rappers isn't a contributing factor in that.

If I recall right just recently a black kid tried to run down some innocent people in his car because he said he was imitating the game Gran Theft Auto.

I would not support banning violent games or media from adults, however I'd totally be on board with regulating it at least as strictly as porn is - this would include all violent forms of media, games, music, TV, as well as exploitative news stories related to violence - they'd be relegated to 'adult' venues so that kids wouldn't be bombarded with these messages daily.

 

Oh good Lawd! I'm so glad none of the parents around here ever take video games away from kids when they're in trouble, or this would happen all the time!

Really, dude. This is no political case. The biggest legitimate political discussion we could have out of this is whether or not he should be tried as an adult. I think that's absolutely f***ing ridiculous. If 14 year olds can get treated as adults when they do something bad, then what f***ing sense does it make to treat them as kids when they're good? If a 14 year old shall legally be treated as an adult in court (which is, in essence, what "tried as an adult" means), then all 14 year olds should be otherwise.

If he's to be tried as an adult, than all 14 year olds should have the right to work, right to buy tobacco, alcohol, and other "adult" material.

 

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Have you watched any of their entertainment?

Violent games.
Violent movies.
Violent anime.

There is still very much a Samurai mentality alive and well there.

 

It involves innocent people being killed, numerous people being killed in various forms (Blown up, stabbed, shot etc), it has an internet community that is extremely negative (Typical of any FPS game) and it has a mini game which involves killing Zombies... it's a rather violent game. Plus it's rated M... That's enough to say it holds up to that standard of being violent.

 

I have a feeling you've only played the story mode...

 

You're joking, right? If you're any bit serious, this conversation is done.

I've grown up with 'gangsta rap' when I was a kid. My favorite rapper of all time is DMX, favorite rap group is the Wu-Tang Clan. I can name a lot of old school rappers that influenced my way of thinking (KRS One, Common, Nas, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Run DMC, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, and many others). To state something this ridiculous is highly preposterous. Rap music is no more a factor to crime than owning a gun means you're likely to kill someone.

 

I don't see it as the video games being to blame anymore than I see it as the guns being to blame. People who want to play violent video games to this extent and become absorbed in them are the people to blame. As well as parents being held to some of the blame for not seeing that it was too much of this kid's life.

Likewise with kids who want to play with assault rifle type weapons. They have been motivated by fantasies of killing and some of them come to act out those fantasies. In this case it's a sick American mindset that let their wars become glamourized. Kids can't be told to 'support the troops' and then not be expected to support what the troops are doing to people in foreign lands.

So in both cases, the parents are negligent in not asking their children why they want those violent video games and why they want those cool looking assault rifles. Why not a highly accurate target rifle and why not a video game that doesn't promote killing their fellow human beings?

 

Big question is: why didn't the parents have trigger lock on the gun? Especially with a kid living in the house?

 

If call of duty is as spacecricket describes it then it's probably the most dangerous video game for a kid to have. It emulates real killing being done by his military and that's something to which he's expected to relate positively. That's something that can get any american kid's head spinning with delusions of grandeur in somebody else's country. Killing space men is too unreal and there's no way it will get the necessary emotions up and boiling the same as killing a real gook, *******, or whatever the enemy's assigned hate name is.

Support the troops! Even if it's just pretend support and it's the process of getting prepared to support them by joining them. Maybe even kill a parent or a friend or a fat kid at your school so you will 'really' be ready. Not just pretend ready.

 

I don't think porn needs to be strictly regulated either. Hell, everyone knows that kids can get porn on the internet pretty easily anyway.

As far what you see with the black community, I'd argue that has more to do with the parental situation in many cases. If you grow up in a dysfunctional home, you're more likely to end up being a criminal.

Whether or not a kid listens to rap isn't the issue.

 

i would love to see one credible study that links video games to gun violence.