Kid Suffers Gunshot to Head Because God of War

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Taken from Kotaku:

http://kotaku.com/368303/texas-shooting-game-related

A 15-year-old boy from Marble Falls is at Austin's Brackenridge Hospital after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. [...] The boy was playing a video game with a friend when that friend loaded a gun and shot him in the head.

Police said the 13-year-old shooter is being held at the juvenile detention center in Belton and is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The newspaper said the boys were playing a video game called "God of War".
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Kinda sad to shoot someone over a game.... Wonder what people are gunna say now....
 
Yeah but he shot them while they were both playing the game, to the extremist people it's not gonna matter to them whether it was game related or not.
 
aleeock157 said:
Yeah but he shot them while they were both playing the game, to the extremist people it's not gonna matter to them whether it was game related or not.
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How about they blame it on the parents who had a gun laying around? Hm?
 
Hinesmdc said:
It's no different than blaming the couch they were sitting on!
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If the mainstream media could turn it around to say that a couch was possessed by a demon and started shooting kids playing God of War and it would get more hits/sell more money they would say that too.
 
If I recall correctly, there's not a single gun of any human sort in God of War. I don't see how it had anything to do with this.

Scary, this is actually pretty close to where I live.
 
kirbyrockz said:
If I recall correctly, there's not a single gun of any human sort in God of War. I don't see how it had anything to do with this.
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The one kid shot the other one while they were playing God of War. Maybe the one couldn't do God Mode and the other couldn't so the other one shot the one that could.
 
Hinesmdc said:
How about they blame it on the parents who had a gun laying around? Hm?
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How about they blame it on the psycho kid who decide to shoot his friend the head for no apparent reason? XD

I think we all might be a little hypersensitive to people blaming video games for violence (understandably so) because this paper really didn't try to blame video games for this in any way. They just said the kids were playing a video game when the shooting happened. They merely presented the facts of the story, and put no anti-gaming spin on it, or at least that's how I see it. I think maybe we are all overreacting to this a bit.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
How about they blame it on the psycho kid who decide to shoot his friend the head for no apparent reason? XD

I think we all might be a little hypersensitive to people blaming video games for violence (understandably so) because this paper really didn't try to blame video games for this in any way. They just said the kids were playing a video game when the shooting happened. They merely presented the facts of the story, and put no anti-gaming spin on it, or at least that's how I see it. I think maybe we are all overreacting to this a bit.
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cherry but why being so specific about the game they were playing??? i mean now we'll see people investigating about the game and find that is extremly violent
 
The real question is would it have been in the paper that they were playing games if it was over Cooking Mama?
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
I think we all might be a little hypersensitive to people blaming video games for violence (understandably so) because this paper really didn't try to blame video games for this in any way. They just said the kids were playing a video game when the shooting happened. They merely presented the facts of the story, and put no anti-gaming spin on it, or at least that's how I see it. I think maybe we are all overreacting to this a bit.
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Riiiight. I see your point. But you never see an article that ends with, "...The man who was robbed at gun point was reading the New York Times." In a sense, throwing in a useless factoid at the end of an article subconsciously makes the reader think that the reason for the kid getting shot was because he was playing a video game. Or in my example, that the man was robbed at gun point was simply because he was reading the New York Times.
 
Hinesmdc said:
How about they blame it on the parents who had a gun laying around? Hm?
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Agreeeed!

I think it is the stupid parents fault... unless the kid got it from some other means.

†B†V† :hat
 
Bluevoodu said:
Agreeeed!

I think it is the stupid parents fault... unless the kid got it from some other means.

†B†V† :hat
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Then you could blame the poor security on the gun. I mean, if a kid can get a gun so easily, then something was wrong with the owner.
 
fhqwhgads said:
Then you could blame the poor security on the gun. I mean, if a kid can get a gun so easily, then something was wrong with the owner.
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Yes. There was something wrong with the owner. He thought that a loaded gun that was unsecured would not be a temptation to a 13 year old. And because of that he should not be allowed to own or be around firearms because his lack of common sense.
 
I'm still curious as to why one shot the other. It's not like GoW is a competitive multiplayer game. Not to mention there's no guns in the game anyway.

Really, if this is blamed on the game, something is a little more then ****** up.
 
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