Kid Plays Violent Video Game, Kills his Caretaker.

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Well here it is illegal for parents to give a kid an age restricted game to play. So it's likely in this scenario that the parents (assuming it's them who let him have the game) would be prosecuted for letting him play the game. And it's a legal requirement to keep firearms locked away and unloaded, so whoever's gun that was would have been prosecuted, and most likely lose their gun licence and thus have all their guns taken away.

But in the USA there is no legally enforceable age rating for games, and it's legal to keep a loaded gun under your pillow, there's no law under which the parents / gun owner can in anyway be held to account for creating the conditions for that allowed this kid to carry out this fantasy. It's situations like this that make me question my view that parents should be the final arbiter of what they let their kids watch and play (if I let my boys play games that are in a higher category of age restriction then I am acting unlawfully. I fully agree with having laws that make age ratings on games legally enforceable on retailers meaning they can't knowingly sell a game to someone who is under age. But I mostly don't agree with laws that say parents can't let their kids play games that are age restricted. In situations like this though there should be some sort of legal accountability on the people who gave this kid the game to play.

Terrible tragedy, but 100% preventable if certain adults were a bit more responsible.

And yet GTA will be the object of all the parent and family groups' ire.