French police prevented on tuesday a 13-year-old French boy to murder his teachers with a shotgun. Even if no relationship was made by the police, most of the french medias pointed out the fact the teenager was a video game enthusiast. None of them asked how a teenager could easily access to a shotgun and 25 cartridges...

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This is very silly

jsut because he liked Video Games doesn't mean he would do this!!!!

Let me guess - they blamed Wii Fit?

@haxxiy

COD if at all anything

Great, how many 13 year olds in France don't have played video games yet?

Damn we gotta ban GTA so we can prevent this sort of stuff.

I just played 14 hours straight of GTA and suddenly i have the urge to run people over...Just fucking kidding it doesn't work like that.

Can I be honest here? This can happen, my mother played crazy taxi and then felt like driving in the real world just like how she drove in crazy taxi. These are 13 year olds, imagine what implications shooters could have on them. I'm not saying this is the reason, but it might be and just because we like video games, we shouldn't ignore that this can happen.

Dam Wii Fit! I knew all that healthy good excersicing will urge people to want to shoot somebody.  Especially that hoola-hoop excersice XD

Yeah in a way it can happen....  but that is the same with movies. But that is just getting pumped up (in my case) for like 10-20 minutes.   And I am happy your mom is not my driver then =p.

As the demographic of video gamers change, mentionning that a psychopat is also a video game addict won't work much longer.

Everyone plays video games nowadays, journalists will have to find something else to milk about. Or do their job. But that would be hard, they are not used to.

Since he gave up after seeing that the school was surrounded by police, I think it's safe to say that he didn't play enough video games. If he had played Uncharted 2, he would have learned how to stealth snap all those coppers' necks.