After the second article, commenters propose a similar situation as a possibility.
Nonetheless, shooting one's parents in the head over a video game indicates a level of mental instability regardless of whether his parents were oppressive or not.
Respectively, some teens have killed their parents because of rather severe sexual or physical abuse. This kid just seems at the time to just have been tragically infused with a sense of entitlement.
Yeah, my original post had a whole lot of projection going on in it actually. My parents were extremely controlling, so I assumed his were as well. But really my point is that a normal kid doesn't just murder his parents one day over a video game, and that a kid doesn't get fucked up enough to murder his parents without the parents contributing to it somehow.
So yeah I guess I'm kind of blaming them for getting shot... kind of.
Reading both articles it does tell me one thing. The parents were just being parents. They took the violent video game away. Only Halo 3 is mentioned. They didn't take the xbox away just one single game. Sorry if that is too controlling but parents have the right to draw a line in the sand and create standards for their children. Maybe the parents felt uncomfortable with him being up all night shooting people online. The article did point out that he had spent a lot of time playing Halo. Hell the parents might of just taken the game away just to get a decent nights sleep
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"I would have to say it's another kid who got pissed he didn't get his way and dealt with it out of anger."
And how do you think he became the kind of person who would become angry enough over a video game that he's willing to commit murder? I'd wager it has a lot to do with how he was raised.
I'm not defending his actions, and I'm sure that his parents did the best job of parenting that they knew how. But their child is still a product of the environment they provided.
Another possibility is that the parents noticed their son had a natural proclivity towards violence (some people just do) and were trying to discourage him from it (hence the snowboarding).
There's really no way to know based on the info in the article. As you said yourself, you might be projecting.
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Nonetheless, shooting one's parents in the head over a video game indicates a level of mental instability regardless of whether his parents were oppressive or not.
Respectively, some teens have killed their parents because of rather severe sexual or physical abuse. This kid just seems at the time to just have been tragically infused with a sense of entitlement.
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So yeah I guess I'm kind of blaming them for getting shot... kind of.
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And how do you think he became the kind of person who would become angry enough over a video game that he's willing to commit murder? I'd wager it has a lot to do with how he was raised.
I'm not defending his actions, and I'm sure that his parents did the best job of parenting that they knew how. But their child is still a product of the environment they provided.
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There's really no way to know based on the info in the article. As you said yourself, you might be projecting.
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http://kotaku.com/5112289/halo-3-shooters-attorney-argues-insanity-due-to-video-game-addiction
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