October 30, 2003
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Parents Sue Over Game Linked to Shooting
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031022/ap_on_re_us/video_game_lawsuit_1That's just great. It couldn't be the fact that it was the parents' lack of attention to their kids that gave these kids the opportunity to dig out the gun(s) in the closet. It couldn't be the fact that mom and pop left the gun sitting in the house without some sorta safe, locked up containment. It couldn't be the fact that they bought a game for their kids while ignoring the "M" rated content that is in it.
Take responsibility for your own parenting-deficiency, you ignorant coward!
I can just imagine what parents say these days:
"...It can't be my kid. My little angel can do no wrong..."
"...these games are training our kids to be killers!"
Riiii~ght.
The last time I checked, Grand Theft Auto didn't teach me how to pick the lock of the gun closet in the house. Nor did it tell me how to load the bullets into the guns. It CERTAINLY DID NOT SIMULATE firing a rifle with the PS2 Dual Shock Controller. If games are such good training for gun firing, I'd be in Navy Seals right now. Heck, there would be no need for such ridiculous budget to train our soldiers for war. A PS2 is just under $180.00.
What it DID DO for me is giving me a RELEASE FROM MY DAILY LIFE, and took my mind off everyday issues that I deal with.
If your teenage kids can't distinguish between reality and entertainment, get them help.
If they tell you they can't make that distinction, they're lying.
Yes, whether you believe it or not, your kids lie.
Whether you want to believe it or not, your kids know more than you think they know. They are probably having sex and smoking pot behind your back. You just don't believe it.
You may still believe that your teenage kids can't possibly fire a gun at someone without some outside force coersing them, and that they didn't know better. But then, what does that say about your parenting?! That you raised a buncha ignorant fools?
The bottom line is, these kids that commited crimes knew what they were doing. No one force their hands to pull the trigger.
Don't blame videogames, teachers, or school for your mistakes. The kids are yours.
I didn't learn how to shoot a basketball from playing NBA Street Vol. 2.
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Yep, no matter how much I play NBA Street, I still can't do the "Dinner's Served" dunk...
I do have to admit that once, after a long night of playing sniper on TFC (Team Fortress Classic), I was seeing a red dot on several co-workers' forehead the next day... headshot!
not all kids are like that though...
and it's "coerCing" not coerSing...
but my grammy and spelly sucks, so uh...duh
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