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waron on 15 March 2009
Wookaroo said:

Well, it seems this guy seemed fairly normal before he went psycho. Only minor depression and such. The article doesn't say much about his parents. Perhaps they should have kept the guns in a place that was actually SAFE. I'm not sure about other people out there, but I know if I had kids, I wouldn't want them obsessed with weapons.

Sounds like he was a creep online, but nobody is going to know about that. Obviously his problems stem to things beyond video games. Placing the blame on video games is easy. They're dodging the things that started and brewed his mental degradation.

“A variety of factors, such as helplessness, anger and loss of control, must come together for them to become the trigger, but the games themselves don’t make anyone a killer.”

This, really.

It's sad to hear about all those deaths though. Very tragic indeed.

 

well i read that dude had mental problems and end up in psychiatric plus has been takin some medicaments because of that.



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Snake2 on 15 March 2009

And here I was thinking it was going to say he'd channeled his rage into kicking ass at Far Cry 2's multiplayer.

Sad story.

too many shooters in the market place.



theRepublic on 15 March 2009
badgenome said:

And here I was thinking it was going to say he'd channeled his rage into kicking ass at Far Cry 2's multiplayer.

Sad story.

Same here. 



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Wookaroo on 15 March 2009


well i read that dude had mental problems and end up in psychiatric plus has been takin some medicaments because of that.


Well in that case, I agree with your original response. I wouldn't want that kid near guns, much less enjoying 'father and son time' at a shooting range.

I'm not against people enjoying firing guns for sport (not hunting!), but they should be mentally stable enough to do so. Sounds like this guy was not.



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NinjaKido on 15 March 2009

Damn you FEMALES !!! why can't you just accept every guy that makes you an offer , then the world be a better place !



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averyblund on 15 March 2009

Typical XBL player? Kidding kidding. But honostly when I listen to the things people say, I'm often genuinely concerned. The amount of hate in most games is pretty significant.

Now don't get me wrong I know FC2 didn't cause him to kill, but I wonder If I played a game with him I would even notice with all the other rubbish being said.



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indodude on 15 March 2009
NinjaKido said:
Damn you FEMALES !!! why can't you just accept every guy that makes you an offer , then the world be a better place !

 

Then the world would be overpopulated. At least 2 Billion in the US alone.



The Ghost of RubangB on 15 March 2009

So he was raised with the idea that he can get whatever he wants, whenever he wants. If he can play with his favorite things, guns, at age 8 and play tennis against champions at age 11, what kind of crazy bitch would dare to reject his advances? He even waited for the New Year's party so it would be as romantic as possible. If that's how this kid thinks, it's his father's fault for spoiling him, and his father's fault for giving him access to guns and supporting his obsession with guns. If the kid was unstable, the dad should have paid more attention instead of just showering him with money, gifts, and guns.

The kid had obviously been planning this for a long time. He wanted revenge, because this was the first time he didn't get what he wanted. He wanted to prepare for months. So he started doing research online about school shootings, for weeks prior to the shootings. He had an exact amount of targets and made sure to get headshots to stay fast and efficient, so he wanted to learn as much as he could about other school shootings. He was a coldblooded killer and he wanted to be. Games had nothing to do with this. Without games he would have just practiced with his real guns anyway. The fact that he played a game on his last night for only 2 hours is not a more important detail than the weeks he spent researching school shootings, or the 9 years he spent shooting with real guns. It is an interesting detail, but it should not overshadow the rest of the story and make this a "blame the games" story.



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Darc Requiem on 15 March 2009
theRepublic said:
badgenome said:

And here I was thinking it was going to say he'd channeled his rage into kicking ass at Far Cry 2's multiplayer.

Sad story.

Same here. 

 

Yeah I was hoping the same..... I just don't understand how people have such a disregard for life. It's really disheartening.



darthdevidem01 on 15 March 2009

I don't know what to say



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