Wonder what Jack Thompson will say.

I can imagine what a dysfunctional family that must have been. 16 year old boys can be very unstable.

I agree with Dennis. Taking the game away from him was probably just the final straw that pushed him over the edge. And video games are actually one of the best ways to vent... Besides, the kid was 16 or 17 years old. Plenty old enough for a game like Halo (can't say much for his taste though...).

What kind of father testifies against his own son in a way that makes his son look like the root of the problem? That's disgusting.

If my son shot my wife in her head I'd probably blame myself.
But I wouldn't deny the fact he shot her.

It's obvious his parents wasen't exacly the best, or, he had some sort of "problem".

EDIT: yeah.. isn't that strange? Why did he try to make it look like "murder suicide" before he killed his dad?.. sound very fishy to me.

Wow.

Some times people get angry and go berserk. It is more common for children than adults. If he didn't have access to a gun, he may have had time to cool down without doing any serious damage. Why did he have access to a gun?

Some times people get angry and go berserk. It is more common for children than adults. If he didn't have access to a key, he may have had time to cool down without doing any serious damage. Why did he have access to a key?

Shit happens all the time. Like my father uses to say: "this can happen only in America."

2nd

usa flawed system upbringing at its best.

when you think for people they for get how to think.

in usa the systems thinks for you "protecting you ".

We have Halo, but we just throw all our kids into a communal pot, meaning that we don't really have parents.

Yes Matthew, very good. But I think it is important to keep in mind that key isn't the weapon. The kid didn't use the key to kill his mum, he used the gun. Maybe the gun was locked up and hidden and guarded by a small army of monkeys - regardless, he was able to get the gun and he used it to murder his mother. If he was unable to get the gun, he would have been unable to shoot anyone. In this case he used a key to get the gun, but I feel that's beside the point.

Apparently the owners of this gun felt that the benefits of owning the gun (whatever they might be) outweighed the risk of this kind of event. I don't feel the same way.

Matthew, do you own a gun?

Guns make killing a lot of people easy, but they don't really help if you want to kill someone in his sleep. This kid had a gun, and he could only kill one of his two targets at point blank range. Fail.

Unless they kept the key on their person at all times, trying to keep something hidden from a determined teenager with enough time on his hands is impossible.