Video Game Obsession Cited In Halo Shooter's Lenient Sentencing

[Fors*]

The more you try to suppress/condemn something from a child, the more the child will want it.....whatever happened to communicating and talking with your child to form trust and understanding before it gets to this level? Now there's a noble concept.....I blame the parents for their lack of action as much as I do him for his actions.

[Kyo28]

I agree that he should have received a stricter sentence, but also should be offered psychiatric counseling in prison. Video game obsession or not, a kid who shoots his own parents like that has mental issues that might never be cured even with lifetime counseling.

Also, his actions (shooting his parents) were competely disproportionate to the actions his parents had taken (take away his video game). Parents usually have their reasons for forbidding certain things. If rules get broken, they are right to act upon it and take action, lest they lose complete control over their child's upbringing.

When I was a young boy, I also didn't understand why my parents imposed certain rules on me or wanted to punish me when not following those rules. Now that I'm grown up and might even have a child myself, I understand their reasons and am grateful they invested so much in my upbringing.

[MLK]

Originally Posted by forsberg21

The more you try to suppress/condemn something from a child, the more the child will want it.....whatever happened to communicating and talking with your child to form trust and understanding before it gets to this level? Now there's a noble concept.....I blame the parents for their lack of action as much as I do him for his actions.

wow, how can you blame the parents for this idiot shooting them? the only way you can blame the parents is for allowing him access to the gun.