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Video game violence? Man shoots son over console dispute |
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It's another case of violence related to video games - although this story may be more telling of the state of domestic affairs. In Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania, a man shot his son, effectively ending a dispute that started with an Xbox 360.
The argument started when a 17-year-old asked his father to take a look at his Xbox 360 console. His father, 60-year-old James Stanley Niedosik didn't want to and the argument started from there.
Somehow it escalated to the point where the son handed his father a .22 rifle, telling him to shoot him. Apparently the argument was heated enough for the father to comply, or at least to press the trigger accidentally.
No exact details have been revealed as to how it escalated or whether it was an accident or not. What's sure is, the boy has a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his skull and is currently heavily sedated in Lehigh Valley Hospital.
The father is currently in Monroe County Prison with a US$ 250,000 bail, charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, simple assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
The son's mother believes the shooting was an accident as she wasn't there when the shooting happened and hasn't talked to her son yet:
One's in jail, one's in the hospital. I won't know exactly what happened until I talk to [my son]. He's incoherent yet; they have him heavily sedated.
Although the story involved a video game console, crediting it as the driving force of the violence may be unlikely as it seems it played no further role in the dispute other than as an arbitrary source of conflict, but perhaps future details will prove otherwise.
Via The Morning Call
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Arument started and rose to the point:
Father : You'r not going to die if you don't have your cosole, now stop telling me I'ma bad father.
Son: Well you'de rather kill me than leave me without videogames, here's the rifle
Father: As you wish. Bang.... Damn, I was a bad father after all.
Ok stop making jokes about it. Anger is the plague of humanity, i always have and always been. Put it in the and of normal people and it always leads to tragedy (school shooting, murder suicide,... Put it in the hand of people with power and you get war (100 years war started mainly because a king refused to kneel before another in a tense situation)
So it rose to the point that one or the other talked about death, either the son asking not to live anymore, orthe father that threatens the kid who decided to be provocative about it. "Oh yeah, well just shoot me if you have the guts" And we all know the end.
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BOOM HEADSHOT
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The problem isn't video gaming. Or the draw to play violent game. The problem isn't even games themselves corrupting our minds. The problem Is simply when you have such a large population of gamers out there. you are going to have the same statistical crime rate out of that number of gamers then you would from any other statistical group.
To put it simply if the number of neural surgeons in the world was comparable to the number of gamers in the world, you would be hearing about neural surgeons maiming each other and breaking into pharmacies. The problem isn't gaming. The problem simply is a corrupt fractured modern society.
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I really don't think the dispute is "effectively ended" between these two people since the son is still alive, and is probably angry from being shot.
also this is quite funny too...
"The son's mother believes the shooting was an accident as she wasn't there when the shooting happened and hasn't talked to her son yet"
I guess this mystery is solved.
Why would you even add that comment to this article... and what does this have to do with video games... NOTHING!!!
The only thing that ended me crying with laughter is reading about the boy getting shot in the head.
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