13 year old boy tries to rape his mom before shooting her dead for taking away his Call of Duty game

[ElderGOD]

Why is buying a gun for an 11 year old a terrible decision? I have a hunter friend who bought his girl a rifle when she was 10 and she could run circles around most people when it comes to gun safety and discharging of the fire arm. This is case of parent not being a responsible gun owner, and not a case of “11 year olds shouldn’t have guns.”

I don’t think the average 11 year old has the intelligence and self control necessary to prevent an “accident” from happening.

[crotchpuncha]

Why is buying a gun for an 11 year old a terrible decision? I have a hunter friend who bought his girl a rifle when she was 10 and she could run circles around most people when it comes to gun safety and discharging of the fire arm. This is case of parent not being a responsible gun owner, and not a case of “11 year olds shouldn’t have guns.”

I don’t think the average 11 year old has the intelligence and self control necessary to prevent an “accident” from happening.

I agree, but that’s where responsible parenting comes into play. I know a number of people who have guns, let their kids use their guns, have bought guns for their kids, and their kids are super responsible with them, but those parents also teach their kids abut gun safety, and store the guns in safe places where they can’t be accessed by the kids without the parent being there.

It is a parents job to keep their kids in line, and to keep them from easily accessing dangerous items, this mother clearly didn’t do a very good job of it. Honestly i think exposing kids to to, and teaching them about guns at a young age is a good idea. Teaches them to fear and respect guns for the dangerous, yet remarkable devices they are, and this all starts with responsible parenting.

[Missing_Person]

That’s because when we were that age most kids weren’t pushed off in front of the TVs by their parents because they were too busy playing Farmville or whatever to you know…BE PARENTS!

Nawl, there were plenty of shithead parents back then too. In fact, this woman was probably lauded in her community for her old-school parenting, back when she was just the woman who gave her pubescent child a gun and not the woman whose pubescent son attempted to rape her and subsequently murdered her.

The trouble with assuming that this problem is somehow worse now than it used to be is that it necessarily demands an explanation for why it’s gotten worse–which is why you get people blaming video games. After all, if it’s worse now, then we have to look at recently occurring variables, and video games are one of those variables.

Every generation thinks its parents did a better job than the parents of the next generation, because every generation is convinced that the next generation is the start of an inexorable social decline. It’s basically unprovable. But if you give in to the temptation to panic over the perceived decay of society, then you’re throwing in your lot with the people who yell ZOMG VIDEO GAMES DID IT!! You may not support their argument, but you’re in support of the larger position that the argument is supposed to justify.

Just accept the real truth. Teenagers are dumb. Always have been, always will be. The middle of the bell curve is swollen with people who are too old to be cute, too young to be useful, who are psychologically smack-in-the-middle of the grey area between childish self-centeredness and the need for freedom that adults feel. At one end of that bell curve, you have teenagers who are actually sort of cool by anybody’s standards other than their own, and at the other end, you have the real fucking morons who kill their parents for taking away their toys.

Having taught students, I can tell you, the amount of shitheads with poor home structure is growing. Am I saying that there weren’t any shitheads when I grew up? Of course not, I knew them. I remember sitting next to a white kid in the 4th grade on a field trip whom, the entire bus trip was rapping out Warren G lyrics. But this is becoming more and more commonplace. To say that statistically there’s no difference in public school children a decade or two ago and public school children now would be akin to an ostrich sticking its head in the ground.

[Elliott_Spook]

For everyone who thinks this problem happened because the mom bought her kid a gun at age 11, that’s BS. I grew up in rural Ontario, Canada and tons of kids had firearms at a young age, including myself. NOBODY had problems with guns, and none of us even heard of kids doing stupid shit like that. It comes down to education and parenting. If the kid is wise, and knows how to responsibly handle owning and caring for a firearm, this shit never happens. As much as I despise COD, the game isn’t to blame, unless COD spent more time parenting the kid than his parents did.

[pedoviejo]

I want to laugh, but I don’t think it would be appropriate.

[Spirit_Juice]

I think some of you guys think kids around the age of 12 are stupider than you think they are when it comes to being responsible with guns. With proper safety training, a 12 year old is probably smarter when it comes to how to safely handle guns than your average adult that understands “pull trigger, gun go boom”.

The real issue here is that the kid is obviously unstable if he’s crazy enough to try to rape his mother and then kill her over a shitty game like CoD.

[Missing_Person]

The real issue here is that the kid is obviously unstable if he’s crazy enough to try to rape his mother and then kill her over a shitty game like CoD.

Which is why the mom was stupid to give him a gun in the first place. The article clearly states he had an unstable relationship with her and had threatened to kill her before. So you give the kid who threatened to kill you…an object whose sole purpose in life is to make the killing of things easier?

[feetfly]

He obviously comes from a stable home environment and definitely didn’t have any unresolved underlying mental health issues that his parents are responsible for not sorting out earlier.

Nope, definitely not that.

It has to be the games even though all the research points in the opposite direction and only scientifically oblivious old people think video games = murderrapeathons.

Yep. Definitely Call of Duty.

Couldn’t possibly be terrible parenting or anything.

[pedoviejo]

I wonder why is it that parents refuse to see the flaws and issues of their own kids. Does it hurt that much, that they simply train themselves to ignore it???

Which reminds me of something, why are kids raising kids??? I shouldn’t cast judgment but, this is really mind boggling. Every time this happens, its because the parents aren’t parents.

That’s because when we were that age most kids weren’t pushed off in front of the TVs by their parents because they were too busy playing Farmville or whatever to you know…BE PARENTS!

Nawl, there were plenty of shithead parents back then too. In fact, this woman was probably lauded in her community for her old-school parenting, back when she was just the woman who gave her pubescent child a gun and not the woman whose pubescent son attempted to rape her and subsequently murdered her.

The trouble with assuming that this problem is somehow worse now than it used to be is that it necessarily demands an explanation for why it’s gotten worse–which is why you get people blaming video games. After all, if it’s worse now, then we have to look at recently occurring variables, and video games are one of those variables.

Every generation thinks its parents did a better job than the parents of the next generation, because every generation is convinced that the next generation is the start of an inexorable social decline. It’s basically unprovable. But if you give in to the temptation to panic over the perceived decay of society, then you’re throwing in your lot with the people who yell ZOMG VIDEO GAMES DID IT!! You may not support their argument, but you’re in support of the larger position that the argument is supposed to justify.

Just accept the real truth. Teenagers are dumb. Always have been, always will be. The middle of the bell curve is swollen with people who are too old to be cute, too young to be useful, who are psychologically smack-in-the-middle of the grey area between childish self-centeredness and the need for freedom that adults feel. At one end of that bell curve, you have teenagers who are actually sort of cool by anybody’s standards other than their own, and at the other end, you have the real fucking morons who kill their parents for taking away their toys.

I think the increasing interconnectedness due to the easy flow of information allows the behavior you explained to take hold easily.

Its much easier now, and happens much more readily today to be bombarded by news like this, so the illusion of this happening more and more is probably the result of such a massive volume of information being streamed at all times from all over the place.

I do wonder though, if its becoming harder and harder to be a parent since it feels like people have to work harder and longer hours.

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LOL, rereading that he snapped after his video games where taken away screams to me that this kid never thought any real discipline, nor was ever disciplined ever.

[Joshkaz]

Because Parents believe their kids are super special, one of a kind little snow flake of perfection that will be the president of the united states, or just super filthy rich, and famous.

[crotchpuncha]

“MY kid would NEVER do that.”

[angelpalm]

Mom was probably one of those that believed in capital punishment for black criminals but never laid a hand to her sons ass cheeks.

[Bious]

Mom was probably one of those that believed in capital punishment for black criminals but never laid a hand to her sons ass cheeks.

I can’t see that. He was trying to lay his hands on HER ass cheeks, so you know that kid was spanked once.

[Spirit_Juice]

The real issue here is that the kid is obviously unstable if he’s crazy enough to try to rape his mother and then kill her over a shitty game like CoD.

Which is why the mom was stupid to give him a gun in the first place. The article clearly states he had an unstable relationship with her and had threatened to kill her before. So you give the kid who threatened to kill you…an object whose sole purpose in life is to make the killing of things easier?

I’m not disagreeing with you here. However, this isn’t a gun control issue in the slightest, which was my main point. Also to point out that CoD sucks.

[goodm0urning]

To say that statistically there’s no difference in public school children a decade or two ago and public school children now would be akin to an ostrich sticking its head in the ground.

Statistically a difference in what? Shitheadedness?

[NickRocks]

oh boy another gun story to push anti gun laws AND they threw in video games too

[Missing_Person]

The real issue here is that the kid is obviously unstable if he’s crazy enough to try to rape his mother and then kill her over a shitty game like CoD.

Which is why the mom was stupid to give him a gun in the first place. The article clearly states he had an unstable relationship with her and had threatened to kill her before. So you give the kid who threatened to kill you…an object whose sole purpose in life is to make the killing of things easier?

I’m not disagreeing with you here. However, this isn’t a gun control issue in the slightest, which was my main point. Also to point out that CoD sucks.

We’re not in any way, shape or form disagreeing, because I’m not trying to make it a gun control issue either. I don’t think owning a gun means you’re a killer de facto. But in this case, that kid had no business being around one.

[Missing_Person]

To say that statistically there’s no difference in public school children a decade or two ago and public school children now would be akin to an ostrich sticking its head in the ground.

Statistically a difference in what? Shitheadedness?

Touche. Statistically was the wrong word for this. Practically would be better. Because in practice, there is a difference. But of course statisticians wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole. Why? “Not THEIR kids!”

[maxx]

oh boy another gun story to push anti gun laws AND they threw in video games too

lol insert conspiracy theory here

[Husteen]

BAD GRADES AND NO GAMES MAKE NOAH SOMETHING SOMETHING.