After looking up the The Escapist Forums I found this interesting story about the sentence of the boy who murdered his mother and father after they banned him from Halo.



He was 17 years old when the incident happened and was apparently so addicted to Halo when told to quit he then got his father's gun from a lock box and shot them both wounding his father and killing his mother. I wish I could say more about this like a witty retort or a one-liner but things like this make me fear for the future of humanity itself. If a 17 year old boy can be driven to murder by a video game alone I'm just glad he wasn't in a cult of some kind otherwise this could easily had become "Halo Killing spree. Boy murders enitre family and neighbours."



I personally blame the parents, the kid or even the friends for not spotting this earlier or the father (Who can be seen appealing for this son in the above picture) for not locking away his gun! The judge on the other hand blames violent video games which should be the last thing to blame. I'm not saying that the game had no role in the killing but how can you see this person given a single copy of millions of the same game and when he alone snaps blame the game is ridiculous.



This is a really difficult subject to write about for any gamer. On one hand the guy deserves to be seperated from the rest of the world that is certain. If you kill someone over something as trival as a videogame you need to be locked up. But on the other the kid now has to be in jail for 23 years before even being considered for parole. He almost just turn 18 and was so close to starting his life and now he's stuck in jail till he's middle aged because he did something stupid - he actually was heard crying over the loss of his mother - and that's his whole life whisked away because he freaked out. That's not cool.



Post your opinions on whether or not you think this guy should have "gotten off" with insanity or less years tilll parole below.