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Halo 3 Criticized In Murder Conviction
oldwindways writes "An Ohio teen was found guilty of murdering his mother and shooting his father in the head after they took away his copy of Halo 3. One has to wonder if this is going to have any effect on the games industry. Clearly, the AP thought they could stir up something controversial by asking the IP owner for a statement: 'Microsoft, which owns the intellectual property for the game, declined to comment beyond a statement saying: "We are aware of the situation and it is a tragic case."' I suppose the good news is they did not accept his insanity plea, so no one can claim that Halo 3 drove him insane. Even so, I don't think anything good can come out of this for gamers."
Unfortunately, it seems somebody can claim that the game was a contributing factor; the judge who presided over this case said he believes that the 17-year-old defendant "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever." GamePolitics has further details from the judge's statement. It doesn't help that the boy's lawyers used video game addiction as a defense.
Rate of imprisonment in the US is about the highest in the world.
So is our rate of obesity but I fail to see the connection between either and firearms. Our rate of imprisonment has more to do with decades of a failed drug policy than it does with firearms.
In short: You fail
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
The Taliban always maintained that they did not know where Bin Laden was, and even if they did, they had no control over his actions.
If they had no control over his actions then we had every right to go into that country and capture or kill him. There isn't a nation-state on this planet that would have responded differently if thousands of their citizens were murdered.
This will likely be disregarded as conspiracy theorist whackoism
That's exactly how I'm going to disregard it, given the fact that the SOB and members of his organization have admitted their involvement.
If you're going to launch the most expensive war in history then perhaps make sure there are not gigantic questions surrounding what appears to be a poorly constructed false pretext as a reason for doing it.
9/11 was a false pretext? Or are you confusing Iraq with Afghanistan again?
Over here we question the crap that media shits out on our plate.
Yes, blame the media! Anybody that doesn't agree with you is just eating crap from the media.
You want to eat it and say "yum" then digg.com will suit you better.
If you wanna spout your leftist flower-child bullshit then dailykos.com will suit you better. If you want to tout your "blame Christianity" bullshit then go find a militant atheist site or something.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I often wonder how many people who hold up the Bible as this great moral document to guide our modern times have ever *really* read the thing. I don't mean read as in "listen to my local minister/priest/rabbi talk about some cherry-picked passage and then read that passage," I mean really READ the entirety of the texts that make it up (and not just some Talmudic interpretation or minister's inspirational book of happy Jesus sayings). I have to wonder what a modern Christian would think when they read about their great loving God sending his angel of death to kill every innocent first-born child of Egypt just because some Pharaoh was a dickhead; or about God's chosen one, Moses, fucking his daughters; or about the rampant polygamy among God's chosen leaders (one man/one woman my ass!); or about the slaughter of entire tribes (men, women, and children) not only endorsed by, but actually ordered by, their "loving and compassionate" father-figure in heaven.
Either God went through a pretty radical transformation at some point, or the God they're worshiping bears a much stronger resemblance to the modern conception of Satan than some loving, monogamy-supporting hippie.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Sorry but WHAT THE FUCK?
Since when is voicing my opinion based on the (scant) presented facts a troll?
I'm not even disagreeing with the parent post!
WTF?