Really Sick of Gaming Being a Scapegoat

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Originally Posted by Deads3t

Tragedies happen all the time no matter the country, and wagging your finger at the rights of one country isn't the answer. Education is.

1. Should he have been playing with a gun in the house? NO
2. Should his parents have taught him to safely handle them? YES
3. Should an 11 yr old play an M rated game? NO
4. Should his parents have taken a more active role in what said child sees/plays? YES

It's obvious this child didn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. It's up to the parents to educate them.

A child has no business around a real gun. Showing a kid how a gun really works even for safety purposes would be criminally irresponsible. Actually owning guns is criminally irresponsible. We cannot prevent all tragedies from happening, true but a good start would be to realizing that having guns sold to civilians is not worthy of a modern democracy.