Grandma: Video Game Ban Inspired Teen's Rage

[sara1981]

Grandma: Video Game Ban Inspired Teen's Rage
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The grandmother of a 17-year-old shot and wounded Sunday by an Arkansas State Police trooper says her grandson was angry because she had told him to stop playing his violent video games.

Allen Gann was being held in the Crittenden County jail in Marion on a $50,000 bond after authorities charged him in circuit court as an adult with aggravated assault. He also faces juvenile charges.

Gann suffered a bullet wound in the right thigh after the trooper, Matt Roberson, shot him. The teenager was treated Sunday at Regional Medical Center in Memphis and released. The youth had thrown a hammer at the trooper and menaced him with an ax, authorities and Ganns grandmother said.

On Sunday, Allen Gann had sat down to play Resident Evil, a violent video game. He also enjoyed Smackdown Raw, a wrestling video game, and Midnight Club 2, a street-racing-simulation game, his grandmother said.

Georgia Gann said she grounded her grandson from playing the games the night before because he wouldn’t do his household chores. She said that triggered a violent episode that included the teenager choking her and threatening the trooper.

The shooting is under investigation.

Sundays shooting was the second by a state trooper in five days. On March 7, a trooper fatally shot a mentally and physically handicapped man near Springdale after mistaking him for a fugitive from Michigan.

 

[Heath]

My God choking his own grandmother??? and throwing a hammer then menacing with an ax at the state police.... shaking my head no-no .....

I don't play video games that much but I do read alots of very, very and I mean very violent books, manuals and training books that come from real life, yet I don't do anything like that at all.

I think the problem lays in no social time with another teenagers or young adults in the real world playing football baseball or doing things. Video games can be fun to play if done the right way.

For example, I would play

Cabela's Deer Hunt



or

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts



If I had the money to own my own video playstation and start a collection of video cd-roms to pop in and play.

I mean choose the video games that is being played wisely. I also am always on the lookout for Christian video games , I like to play military video games, car racing, ATV etc.

I think it is high time that the video game industry listened to the parents and grandparents concerns. If they want to sell violent games then at least sell it in the locked adult section of the store where people have to be 21 years old to buy the more extreme stuff in a video store.

A 16-17 years old kid is not gonna understand or know the difference of a " play-violent " video game and between what is " real life " serious business and no play game with real world conquensces.

 

[ayala920]

"He did it because of a video game." Ahh, I love that excuse.

It's so unfortunate that people choose to blame video games, movies, TV and music on kids' problems, instead of toying with the possibility that there's more going on with the child than people realize. Those things alone won't cause a kid to do something like that. I remember being infuriated after the incident at Columbine High School because they were trying to blame Marilyn Manson for the teens problems. At that point in my life, I was listening to Marilyn Manson, and I wasn't shooting up my school.

People need to look beyond the surface of things and get to the root of the problem if they want things to change.

 

[ayala920]

A 16-17 years old kid is not gonna understand or know the difference of a " play-violent " video game and between what is " real life " serious business and no play game with real world conquensces.

You're telling me that, at the age of 16, you didn't know that it wasn't okay to walk into a room with a machine gun and shoot random people?

 

[Heath]

"He did it because of a video game." Ahh, I love that excuse.

It's so unfortunate that people choose to blame video games, movies, TV and music on kids' problems, instead of toying with the possibility that there's more going on with the child than people realize. Those things alone won't cause a kid to do something like that. I remember being infuriated after the incident at Columbine High School because they were trying to blame Marilyn Manson for the teens problems. At that point in my life, I was listening to Marilyn Manson, and I wasn't shooting up my school.

People need to look beyond the surface of things and get to the root of the problem if they want things to change.

Yes, exactly no excuse for killing someone. I am a proud gun owner and a deer hunter. I was not happy with the Columbine shooting that happened. I could see the anti-gun crowd screaming look at that...

but guns don't kill people. People kill people. People employ weapons of opporounity all the time another than a gun. I mean there are many ways to do that. I am not going to say how.

The only time someone can kill somebody is in self defense or in wartime.

People are responsible for their own actions. Not their video games.

 

[Heath]

You're telling me that, at the age of 16, you didn't know that it wasn't okay to walk into a room with a machine gun and shoot random people?

He knew it was wrong.

What I am talking about is kids do not realize the conquensces of their actions after it happens.

They think it is cool but after it happens then their eyes are opened. They will wish that never happened.

There was no excuse for what he did.

 

[ayala920]

Ahhh... I understand what you mean now, and I agree completely. Kids at that age (I'm not much older, at 21) think they're invincible, and that nothing will happen to them. I know my little brother was mad at some kid one time, and started telling other people he was going to "kill him." Of course, he really had no plans to kill him, and was using it as a figure of speech, but the kid in question got wind of it and my brother ended up being arrested. He didn't go to jail or even have formal charges press, but it sure was a scare for him.

 

[VamPyroX]

"He did it because of a video game." Ahh, I love that excuse.

It's so unfortunate that people choose to blame video games, movies, TV and music on kids' problems, instead of toying with the possibility that there's more going on with the child than people realize. Those things alone won't cause a kid to do something like that. I remember being infuriated after the incident at Columbine High School because they were trying to blame Marilyn Manson for the teens problems. At that point in my life, I was listening to Marilyn Manson, and I wasn't shooting up my school.

People need to look beyond the surface of things and get to the root of the problem if they want things to change.

Nowadays, people refuse to be responsible for their own actions... so they look for someone (or something) else to blame. :roll:

 

[Rose Immortal]

A 16-17 years old kid is not gonna understand or know the difference of a " play-violent " video game and between what is " real life " serious business and no play game with real world conquensces.

I would not say that. I certainly understood at that age, as did the vast majority of my peers--I mean, I had a pretty good understanding of the workings of the criminal justice system, too. I knew full well that by that age, you're pretty much guaranteed to be tried as an adult and thus subject to the death penalty.

It seems to me that this kid had underlying emotional/mental problems, and taking away the video games was just the "last straw", so to speak. For all we know, he could've become this way with or without ever having these kinds of games. There are many more people who play games like this and don't have any problem distinguishing between reality and play. That's why I think there was something else wrong in him...something that goes way beyond gaming.



(P.S.: I'm still stuck on Tetris.)

 

[Heath]

I would not say that. I certainly understood at that age, as did the vast majority of my peers--I mean, I had a pretty good understanding of the workings of the criminal justice system, too. I knew full well that by that age, you're pretty much guaranteed to be tried as an adult and thus subject to the death penalty.

It seems to me that this kid had underlying emotional/mental problems, and taking away the video games was just the "last straw", so to speak. For all we know, he could've become this way with or without ever having these kinds of games. There are many more people who play games like this and don't have any problem distinguishing between reality and play. That's why I think there was something else wrong in him...something that goes way beyond gaming.



(P.S.: I'm still stuck on Tetris.)

at the very last comment about Tetris, yeah Rose Immortal you do have a good point there.

VamPyroX, Yes I know and that is why we need to go back to the old laws where people could not make excuses and only the judges could apply mercy on each individual case basis that way the defendant and his lawyer could not think up wild excuses to get away with the crime that the defendant commited and focus on the facts that really are there.

Sometimes when I watch the nightly 6 o' clock t.v. news. I think the lawyers are the right hand man to the criminals. Much like a legal advisor in the Mafiosi, only they do not realize they are doing the role of a consigliere to the criminal defendants.

Consigliere: the counselor in a crime family; advises boss and handles legal disputes within the ranks.

 

[VamPyroX]

(P.S.: I'm still stuck on Tetris.)

Uh oh... I better stay out of your way. I'd hate to see you toss me in a closet out of a furious rage and toss boxes in there after me hoping that I will disappear once you've filled the bottom layer of the closet.

 

[Steel X]

I play WAY too many violent games including Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, Grand Theft Auto series, Doom 3, Call of Duty 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and many more and I never even got sent to jail even once for threating or nearly killed a relative or a police officer, etc...never before did I do such a thing like that and I already have my eyes opened in between reality and fantasy and the difference between right and wrong, etc such like that so I'm not as stupid as that teenager was...pity he has blew his fuse from his own grandmother who wont let him play violent games because he didnt do house chores and nearly killed his grandmother and threatening the state trooper and made things much worse...how fuckin' pathetic lol.

 

[TweetyBird]

wow...

 

[Rose Immortal]

Uh oh... I better stay out of your way. I'd hate to see you toss me in a closet out of a furious rage and toss boxes in there after me hoping that I will disappear once you've filled the bottom layer of the closet.

Well, if you're in my house without permission...

 

[Reiko]

Dumb kid. He won't be playing any video games for a long time now.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

It seems to me that this kid had underlying emotional/mental problems, and taking away the video games was just the "last straw", so to speak. For all we know, he could've become this way with or without ever having these kinds of games. There are many more people who play games like this and don't have any problem distinguishing between reality and play. That's why I think there was something else wrong in him...something that goes way beyond gaming.

Yes, I second that.

It´s sad that he didn´t learn how to show/accept the respect on his Granny´s rule when he is in her house.

That´s why I am for gun to be restriction for every civils, not owners. There´re many gun accidents in household.

 

[Teresh]

Nowadays, people refuse to be responsible for their own actions... so they look for someone (or something) else to blame. :roll:

Not a new thing. Type B people typically don't take responsibility. I'd go as far as saying that behaviour is normal.

 

[Rose Immortal]

Yes, I second that.

It´s sad that he didn´t learn how to show/accept the respect on his Granny´s rule when he is in her house.

That´s why I am for gun to be restriction for every civils, not owners. There´re many gun accidents in household.

I do not agree with you about taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. I think the problem is that this woman didn't keep the gun in a safe place, locked up where no one else (especially not a kid with this kind of anger problem) could get to it. And preferably the ammo should be in a separate place from the gun, also under lock and key.

 

[VamPyroX]

You're right. Just because some kids accesses a gun at home doesn't only mean that the kid is bad. The gun was made accessible in the first place.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

I do not agree with you about taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. I think the problem is that this woman didn't keep the gun in a safe place, locked up where no one else (especially not a kid with this kind of anger problem) could get to it. And preferably the ammo should be in a separate place from the gun, also under lock and key.

It makes no different either gun make sure to be safety or not...

Look the example:

http://www.alldeaf.com/showthread.php?t=26110