A different article I read earlier (sorry, it’s too early and I’m too lazy to go looking for it) painted this in a slightly different light btw.
The kid didn’t kill his dad because he was mad he got his Switch taken away. He got his Switch taken away, snuck into his parents room to go looking for it, found the gun instead, and started playing with it. Then he accidentally shot his dad with it.
That is a MUCH different story than “psychopathic child murders his father over a video game”. But hey, anything to avoid a headline that insinuates guns themselves are the problem.
Per other reports, he found the key, took the key to the safe, took the gun, loaded it, then aimed and fired it. Hard to do all that by accident.
This must be the resistance to tyranny the NRA go on about
“Resistance to tyranny? We meant resistance to trannies”
*NRA and MAGA
Great country you have there America
I’m just pointing out that an 11 year old is not thinking as an adult. Fairness and morality starts to clean up around 8. But it all depends on what kind of environment they have.
11 is still in mid/early development.Not much in the article. Surely there’s more going on here, possibly an unsecured firearm?
Why is the story not about an 11yo getting access to a gun?
Totally justified.
Jk, but so much focus on the handheld videogames, and not the handheld gun… Must be Merica
The hard parts of murdering someone you live with has always been: 1) people don’t actually want to murder others; and 2) getting away with it. Clearly this kid was not concerned with either of these.
so much focus on the handheld videogames, and not the handheld gun
It isn’t hard for anyone you live with to kill you if they make even a basic plan. The same effect can be accomplished with a knife, something readily accessible in any kitchen. The interesting part of this story is the murderous 11-year-old, which is why everyone is focusing on him.
It is FAR more difficult, both physically and emotionally to kill someone with a knife than a firearm.
There are millions, if not a billion of kids in the world. And I’m willing to bet, that over the past 100 years. Homicides committed by kids, are heavily skewed towards gunfire over stabbings. Even if we exclude child-soldiers.
I would even wager that homicides by kids with guns in the US, far outweighs homicides by kids with knives, world wide.
Well, the fact that the kid went for a gun instead of a readily accessible knife is either because the gun is even more readily accessible than the knife or that guns are much preferred when it comes to performing a murder.
In the latter, the kid might’ve decided that the hard parts of murdering his father might not be worth dealing with if he doesn’t have easy enough access to the gun in the first place. So the question goes back to why it was so easy for an 11 year old to get his hand on a gun in the first place.
Sounds like he came across it while searching for the Switch, so yes it was more readily accessible in the moment.
"I didn’t expect this,” Jesse Weldon said.
Why would you Jesse? The only thing that would be more disturbing than a kid shooting their parent, is if you as an outsider expected it might happen.
Sounds like the solution here is to regulate and license people’s access to Nintendo Switches!
Kid certainly won’t be getting another Switch…
Back in my day, he would’ve gotten the switch. Just not the one he wanted.
Then you must have a strong opinion on The King’s new Tea Tax.
Lol, I’m 34 and my parents hit me with just about anything within arms reach when I was young. Getting the switch might have been the better alternative.
Uh… I’m really sorry to hear that.
No worries dude, I’m glad most people have pretty much given up that style of parenting. Spanking and abuse was still pretty common in the 90s though.
I grew up this way too. 90’s kid. My parent was proud he didn’t use the kneeling on rice thing, like his mother did, but I’ve definitely had to pick my own switch out of the woods to get beat with.
I don’t hit my kid, ever, shockingly, he is respectful and trusts me. Who knew.
Maybe where you grew up, but I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and that sort of thing was unheard of. And very much considered completely and utterly unacceptable.
I’m sorry that’s not how you grew up.
Thanks man, don’t worry about it. It was a long time ago and I left that place and never looked back. I think a lot of it has to do with how much money your family had. I grew up super poor and never had a stable place to live and my parents took a lot of their frustrations out on my siblings and myself. Mostly me as the oldest of five children. I know I went through more than most people, but I’ve traveled around the country and most people I’ve met had some kind of parental corporal punishment.
I have had friends who lived in middle class and upper middle class families and it was a completely different environment from what I was used to. I also grew up in a poor red state and a lot of what people believe there was completely backwards and probably still is.
Mimfenko Splish? Aw gee. Thanks Mom and Dad
Why the downvotes? Lol. This is accurate for that time period.
I feel particularly bad for the mother (and any siblings). She lost a husband and a child this day.
Either the dad was a prick or the kid is a psychopath that belongs in a mental institution.
I think a little bit of both.
Or the accusation is wrong, or circumstances are unknown, or maybe even something else :)
I feel like there must have been something else going on
