Dad shoot son over video game!

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Gnizmo said:

Killergran said:

If I actually tried to kill someone with a rock from a distance greater than 3 meters, people would be more likely to laugh at me than run screaming. And if I would kill for a $60 videogame, imagine how obsessed I would be about my $20,000 car.

Except he wasn't 3 meters away. He wasn't 3 feet away. He was right next to the father.

Edit: He also valued his vengeance over his son's life. A child's life is valued far higher than a $4000 junker (see I can make up random prices too!)

@Johnsobas
Many of those items would be conviniently located. All the same, your argument falls into the "not a fair fight" category and that is not a good defense.

Where did you get that information?  It doesn't tell the distance in the story.  And what it does say is that the kid tried to knock the gun out of his hands and then ran away, and was shot while running.  If the kid couldn't get 3 feet, he must have been as drunk as his dad. 

And if he was at any real distance, IMO that guy was probably too drunk to hit him with much of anything other than the gun (which was itself far from guaranteed), especially your downright comical suggestion of bow and arrow.  And car. 

(Not that it can't be a formidable weapon but it sounds like the circumstances would have made it not any kind of option -- he was drunk, the kid could have grabbed the arrow before running, etc.)