Neither do I. Though, it’s still tragic that this happened. I appreciate your coverage of the case.

Thank you for covering this very tragic case.

If you still play games, what is your favorite?

I agree, it's deeper then that, defently some darker issues in the mind of this individual, as in all that do things to hurt, harm or the other unthinkable n disturbing acts.. .thank you for your stories, doing a nice job, hope to see many new stories to come. Hope you n your family Stay safe and healthy during our crazy times..😊blessings

Behavioral specialists have proven time and time again that video games aren't linked to violence or any antisocial behavior.

I was going to say the same. Addiction is addiction. The game itself is irrelevant.

If anyone takes my halo 3 game though there will be consequences.

Ummmm GAAAAAY-LO does

Actually there's a proven double study that shows it desensitizes children to violence.... and dampens their capacity for compassion and empathy. It was very sad to see the examples within the study and it makes sense why the military like to recruit kids that enjoy first person shooters l.

​@@garrysekelli6776 💀

That's right. Let's ban video games! G@mers are the devil!

father is an idiot,

Thank you for pointing that out. I'm tired of people blaming on videogames or music .

@@LilithLovedrop same it’s annoying as hell

I'm sure holocaust and rape of Nanking was because of videogames too

Exactly same for me.

I’m so glad my mom was flexible with my music choices… I’m sure listening to deathcore when you don’t like it isn’t very fun. It’d be like my children blasting that BroCountry… I’d slowly start going insane. 😂

Gay

Same...56yrs old .

@@Shambles99😂😂😂😂

Right you just be in that fuck you guys mood but that’s it lol this guys wild

As if those moods did not impact them either...

Same. I never hated my parents but I went through the edgelord stuff. I thought I was smarter than them just because I decided to become an atheist, listened to screamo, played tons of violent video games from CoD to Dragon Age, read very grim books… and never in my life have I even gotten in a fight. My mom and I, may she rest in peace, had our fair share of arguments, but never once in my life could I fathom the idea of putting a hand on her. I still play video games nearly daily as a man with a career.

Monsters know what they are doing and they never regrets. He is a child...

Poser

He’s evil.

face it he may have got the fix playing the game and not from a real life shooting

Spot on, Melanie Ash.

I agree.

It’s absolutely ridiculous to say this is because of a video game. This kid is a psychopath you can’t explain why a psychopath does horrible things.

🤣

The newer versions of the game isn’t making me any better. I thought there was a Hinox in the forest I was taking a walk in 😂

@@Nokomomo22 🤣

😂

Brooooooo. 😂😂😂😂😂

psychopaths don't feel guilt or that it's wrong. he isnt a pyscho. maybe a sociopath, but I'm not a psychologist. but it doesn't take a doctorates to look up the traits. he missed his mom and knew it was wrong

​@@Sputterbugzthank u

@@Sputterbugz you have that backwards,sociopaths are the ones that dont feel guilt or remorse. psycopaths are the emotional,impulse driven poeple. i honestly dont think hes either,i simply think hes an entitled brat who couldnt handle his father putting his foot down so he decided to try and shut him up for good...thats alll that was a big violent vengeance driven temper-tantrum.

he lucked out with a forgiving father and a video game hating judge

Judge: "Hmm must of been a special halo mission"

I do actually believe that he really is sorry, though. He was a child when he did this and has probably changed immensely over time.

@@kingjoe3rd I believe he was sorry for the consequences he received. He didn't want his father or family to hate him after the fact, because he likely would have no real connection in his life. For a cold blooded, double-murder attempt, with immediate lying/blame casting to his father (he justified this so easily and quickly because 1. his father denied him a thing he wanted and 2. the murders were his dad's fault because he said no to him), he got off really light. I don't think he deserved forgiveness, but maybe his mom would've thought differently.

@@kingjoe3rd He probably is sorry but it doesn’t matter anymore, the damage is done

Exactly, it was premeditated.

Dopamine is a hell of a drug

public school system turning your kids into heathens and that's the bottom line...schools raise your kids unless your rich and know better than to send your kids to the satanic synagogue aka school...they don't teach you how to learn they teach you what to learn,indoctrinate you with absolute garbage...tv,schools have turned this country to a land of heathens..JESUS CHRIST IS TRUTH...

as an addict, can confirm

you are absolutely right .. video games today are like drugs fo young people addictive and made so by the designers... look how tiktok take childrens avereness from reality...

as a psychologist you have walls full of indoctrination certificates and it did you no good...your so far off your analysis of daniel...uuummmm addiction...gtfoh...you will never know any real truth because you think you already know it...I'm a country boy in the backwoods of Alabama and I laugh at your education...I've forgot more than you will ever know...

Idk if lucky is the right word in this case. He lost his wife and lots of his faculties, had to relearn them all over again.

The son was simply a bad shot. I mean, he was right behind him. Makes me wonder who actually had their eyes closed.

i have a feeling the father was overbearing particularly because he was a pastor. i can see him not coming to the table with a compromise. doesnt excuse anything and i have zero evidence just my instinct

One of the worst approaches to parenting is the zero tolerance “do what I say because I told you so”. I can understand the issue when it comes to dwelling in your own thoughts because your parents are not willing to compromise. When children feel they cannot come to their parents and expect understanding, it will only exacerbate any underlying mental health issues. This is why video games became less contentious over the years, as we push for parents to understand and reason with their children instead of being disciplinarians. I don’t think Daniel is necessarily a psychopath for what he has done. Taking away comforting things from your child without reason when they are dealing something like a spinal injury is borderline abusive. I know many kids who didn’t murder their parents. I also know many who don’t talk to their parents because of how this parenting approach ruins lives.

Yeah, I dont think you are victim blaming or justifying his actions. However, they were his parents so they had responsibility over him. Not to be confused with responsibility over his murderous actions. My brother also struggled with video game addiction because his grades were failing and i believe he wanted something that he excelled at. However this contributed to further academic fails. He is getting better now but while these were happening other members of the family were also struggling with separate mental issues so we couldnt be there for him. I deeply regret that. In the end, we stopped activities as a family and miscommunications increased, leading to impatience and anger issues. My brother also lashed out several times, hurt himself (had to get stitches) and even rushed at our dad. He is getting better now thanks to therapy. I hope it will all be better for our family, and I wish it would have been better for this unfortunate family as well. Addictions and teenage years don't go well, I wish this could have been prevented.

You didn't blast your mum to death though or dad, bit different

😅 Be nice to your sim people😂; your poor dad, well he was wrong because you are ok.

You made me laugh! Poor dad, he just wanted to make sure you turned out okay and you did 😄

My parents did a similar thing with Zoo Tycoon lol apparently we found it a bit too funny to let the dinosaurs escape and eat the guests

This is a great string of confessions 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe not brutally. 😉

Video games before were different. And we did grow up in more normal environment. While nowadays kids don't know how grass outside looks. Engaged daily into phones/apps/games. It's not just about playing a game nowadays - it's bigger social problem where borders to what's ok or not are destroyed. Also now definition of a "game" distorted. Many things are called a "game" while carrying violent content for entertainment with sold purpose to kill isn't gaming nor should be considered a game. And lastly - not all are you. Especially nowadays kids with fragile mental state.

I know it's not the games .I been playing since I was 4 . My 2nd video game was Resident evil .I played every horror and violent game before I was a teen. The most violent thought I ever had was beating up the school bully. Lol never had a murderous thought in my life

Stop the cap 😤😂😉

You've thought of it just now though? Also you are on a video about it?

Depends on the context. I too would feel bad if I stepped on bug unintentionally, but I have no sympathy for slapping the absolute shit out of that mosquito attacking my exposed skin while I sleep.

​@@DemBigOlEyes This is so relatable 😁

​@@DemBigOlEyesor Kamikaze right at your ear lol

Me Three! It's unimaginable to me that someone could off their whole family!

I never fell bad for smashing a spider, but I start to get paranoid. Like, what if that spider has a family? Now they want justice for me smashing their don. Next thing I know the whole spider mafia is waiting for me at my door.

I mean the guy probably had some kind of mental disorder or something. You never know. It's very easy to just say someone's "bad" but like, I'm a guy who has a mental illness and I've studied mental illness. Even people that are sex offenders who commits crimes against kids, they often are reaped with something wrong with their mind and a sense of internal confusion. It's not as simple and cut and dry as we make these things. There's some people that are cold-blooded but a lot of things that can happen. Sometimes there can be things just insanely insanely wrong with people that stretches beyond the common person's ability to understand. I think this kind of pop culture thinking about responsibility and other things, that you read in youtube comments or hear from conservative-leaning people in real life, it ignores the larger picture of everything that can possibly be wrong with a person's mind where they just do something stupid because of distorted perception and thinking. The actual reality of what can happen with many people who are dysfunctional and can make serious mistakes, it's quite sad. Me, I've even had physical health compllciations for years and its affected to my brain to where I've been more vengeful and cold and standoffish as a person, on top of mental shit. You think it's as easy as "someone is bad", which is what many people have told me for my mistakes, but it's not always as simple as that. I'm not saying cold-blooded people can't exist. But I recommend that everyone who makes these talking points about "responsibility" or "blame" or shits on criminals or whatever, they pick up some college textbooks on mental disorders and mental health and understand all the convoluted shit that actually goes on.

@@zrexx9428 I dont care about your mental problems, if you commit a crime, fuck em.

Weird christians. My son murdered my wife and me also but he deserves a second chance 💀

@@MrCosmin94 weird kid on KZfaq complaining about forgiveness of all things in the video. Took the one wholesome thing and complained about it. Imagine.

@@Daddydeeds1 "kid" 🤣🤣🤣

Sorry no, bad comparison. Addictive online games are basically made for your brain to get hooked on them and to trick your brains reward and accomplishment circuits, thats how this guy can play 18 hours a day, because the game tricks his brain into feelings of accomplishments. It stresses the brain in a negative way that beatles music does not, noone would listen to Beatles 18 hours a day, its just meant as inspiration not brainwashing

​@@leob4403 bro I literally have music playing from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep. What are you talking about.

@@leob4403 it would be a bad comparison if that was what was being compared. However it’s the thoughts the judge had regarding video games that is being compared to how people thought about the Beatles.

Yes. Right along with heavy metal.

@@shaedric5733 music doesnt make you into a nervous wreck forced to sit infront of a monitor until you slowly go insane. It doesnt trick your brain into thinking you are accomplishing real tasks in life. Did you ever hear anyone that stopped their life dead in their tracks because they had to sit at home and listen to Beatles 18 hours a day? Its a bad comparison period

"Many skills & bachelor of education" ---> Awesome dude! 👏🏼

Yeah!! Oddly enough playing Skyrim has helped me irl with problem solving, timing and other things! Glad you found a special interest that helped you Jason 🤘🏾

I loved this.

@@harrypottah8889Skyrim helped me a lot too! Especially with the English language as a kid (me being Swedish). It also helped me with some social skills. + Inigo

Same here.

It was a very different time. Mental health was still very taboo, addiction was an embarrassment for people. A lot has changed between now and then. Getting help isn’t looked at the same way as it was then.

Agree

There's a void behind his eyes

Lul. 🦈☠

True he sure has a scary look

Unintentional humor 🤣

😅☠

@@ncubekudzanaicindy7557 I think he looks ill, tired and vacant. Addiction and depressive signs.

Yes, & let God forgive the son. I don't think it's too practical to "forgive & forget" when a murder has been committed. I truly fear for that family if they let Daniel back into their life if he gets out of prison at 40 years of age.

Well I mean when you think about it, is it really a surprise to see religious people doing mental gymnastics in order to justify their beliefs or actions? I mean you have to almost by definition in order to be religious in the first place. It’s something I could never quite grasp or understand and now as a 37 year old fully disabled combat veteran as well as an Avowed Atheist I absolutely cannot understand how or why people choose to believe in the things they believe in.

Yes, because forgiving and trying to grow as a person MUST BE INSANE! Everyone knows you have to actively hate people who have done wrong until you die.

@@ProudBostonian I really would like to take a moment to say thank you for your services!!! 🫡

@@introspectivetonysoprano It really is. At least when he lives whit you, this kid would do some other bullshit again and again. So yeah, leave acting like a saint to Jesus i guess.

Same. I went from playing oblivion when I was 7 years old, to battlefield games when I was 14-16. Since then played a huge number of diverse games, shadow of Mordor, shadow of war, assassin Creed games, MMOs, dishonored, sniper games, hitman, to now with star wars game, assassin's creed mirage and destiny 2. Not once has killing someone entered my mind, and it never will.

You got it right, that was my very first thought. This kid was probably blocked from a lot because of his dad's religious fervor, and then for a year he was even more trapped within the home while his spine healed. Not saying the kid was justified of course, just that I can see why he might "abruptly" snap.

I disagree. This young man had hatred early on and the game may have been the incentive that he needed to commit the crime. His father knows better than I but the son was of an age to know better. The son is in a better place.

@@bjbrown Incentive, as in the game it self, or the game play? I hope I said that right. I can see the game it self but not the game play. You are born violent or made violent by you're environment, I.E. real environment. As in mistreatment in school or parents, and sometimes both. Sometimes it's perceived mistreatment as well. I think this kid had a little of all of it, and yes, he knew he did wrong. Does he regret it? Most of the time I would say no. For him, I'm leaning a little to the yes side. Just a little.

@@No_Fuse8771 You think for most part he doesn't regret it? I'd say he absolutely does, even if not for what he did to his mum and dad but definitely for himself. His life is no walk in the park anymore.

@@bjbrown I watched back through and I'm struggling to find where it said he had hatred early on. I think the judge touched on it but managed to miss the point; it's way more about the horrors of addiction (of any sort) than about the game itself.

Maybe now he’ll learn how to be a good parent 😂 the parents are the cause of this because they created the kid and raised the kid and couldn’t give the kid a positive outlet besides video games. Sucks

Hopefully someone puts him down in prison before then

Forgives him for killing his beloved wife but wouldn’t cut him slack on Halo 3. What a guy

​@@zackhickey4922right? Tf is up with that?

I mean the guy was probably like severely fucking mentally ill. I don't get comments like these. We act and assume as if everyone is in standard functioning to our own. I've had severe mental problems of my own that were exacerbated by physical health conditions that affected my brain function. Everyone took any bad incidents or mistakes I've made over the years and treats me like I'm a fully capable, ordinary human being that should take blame for his actions, but like, I have a mountain of fucking shit that infected my brain. I did research to realize that I had like 7 fucking mental disorders that I didn't even realize that I had (well not that bad but it was intense). People don't realize how severe mental health can be and how much it can contribute to shit. Chances are you don't know enough to understand the specific circumstances of the killer or what went on inside the person's head or what was potentially wrong with them. I'm dead sick of these comments that talk about how disgusting or unforgivable many criminals are when it's like, you don't even know the circumstance of most of these fucking people and you're operating off of an archetype that exists in your head. Everyone thinks of killers or other pathological criminals like some kind of cartoon character bad guy. Sometime it's not that simple. When we talk about people and their mistakes, it's like a very very complex world that exists. Child molesters, for instance. Very quickly villainized category. But did you know that peoploe with pedophilia have altered nervous systems and there's a boatload of psychological confusion that goes on in their brain? Like they are warped to sometimes think that the victim wants it and its a thing where they're fucking crazy. It's not as simple as "evil guy does X". When your brain is fucked, you do stupid shit. Anyone that is willing to make comments like this, I recommend they pick up college-level textbooks in psychological disorders and other things that are related to psychology. You'd be surprised how much more complicated it can really be.

The underlying issue was mentioned almost immediately. His religion crazed nut case father told his child son hed kick him out rather than be a fcking loving father and help his sons issues by teaching him moderation in all things

Exactly - and the hundreds of millions of people who play video games (I am not one of them I don't like them) are not running around killing other people in a delusional fog.

Cowboys and Indians as kids, teaches you the value of weapons vs over reaching admin.

Because playing like that doesn't have realistic blood spatter or other realistic violence. We knew it was pretend when we used finger guns or even squirt guns/cap guns.

It's different when it comes to VIRTUAL REALITY which AFFECTS BRAIN directly. That's why it is malicious. You should know difference between playing irl and on computer. Especially for nowadays youth that foesnt know how grass outside looks..

I explained to a friend the difference between violence in video games and what happens in real life. No sane person can confuse real humans with AI that comes at you even when you shoot it with multiple bullets over and over. There’s something almost comical about video game violence that never translates to actual human murder.

Wow you got to play GTA as an adult what trusting parents.

Nah it was the video games. Made the boy a killer. Send it happen too many times. When will we learn as a nation? Let's ban video games for ever!!!!!!!

I got into a spat with my father when he accused me of being a terrible person because I played video games, that they were evil and caused kids to become horrible people. I laughed and asked what he knew about the games I played, then described the Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, and Kingdom Hearts (the only “violent” game I played at the time) series to him, and asked how stories about friendship and being kind to others was a gateway to murder.

@@JackieOwl94 youre a terrible person and should be locked up.

Imagine having this weak mentality lol 'ive had a hard day at work i know ill shoot people on gta to destress!' Hit the gym lol

I think it was a bit different since this was basically his only coping method throughout his injury. Not saying it wasn't fucked up, but I don't think he would have snapped over being told no to a party.

Big gaming got to you to! Video games are a disease! Save your soul! Turn to CHrist!

@@jsdldfsfsdf lol coming from someone who believes in a person who "supposedly" perform miracles and will save you from some imaginary evil makes. Ridiculous. It's the addiction, not the games itself. Anyone who can't get a fix of their addiction can do crazy things. Spare me with that Christian bs.

@@strawberrycoon5382 Honestly what @jsdldfsfsdf said sounds like a meme to me. "Big gaming" just makes it so obvious.

@@AquaHedgehog oops sorry, it's hard to tell with Christians. I legit got told by one that I'm going to hell because I'm into kpop and kpop is the instrument of evil lol

Completely agree, the one thing his dad forgot to mention is yes God is a God of love and forgiveness . But God also gave us his creation made in his image, free will . And regardless of a video game, Daniel with his free will chose to shoot his parents. The devil might whisper a idea but it is completely your choice to listen or denie that dark idea.

Opinion are like assholes. Everyone has one and they all stink. But...we all have the freedom to express them which is a wonderful thing.

He was extremely correct in his analogy. You are simply a child.

@@srjwildcat3589 I think you meant are

@@pennymac2331 Obviously. 👍

@@srjwildcat3589 I thought it might be some weird American saying is all...

Sounds like he was totally disconnected from his kid and blinded by stupid Christianity. Had he taken time to understand his child and even engage with his fixation, he could have avoided turning him crazy

Throwing out your kid for doing something like playing a game with violence is ridiculous..

​@@RRRobertLazer Agreed.

@@RRRobertLazer Playing video games 18 hours a day and moving in with a friend over that is not normal behaviour. Who wants their kid addicted to video games? I'm not religious at all and would have taken my addicted childs console/games away too

I would never forgive my son, no matter what!!. What a coward!

It was god’s plan :-).

@@investor.z wtf

Bc he typed ggez in chat

​@@cursedcatisgod yep all is God's plan

@@investor.z then that god needs to be burned

All of us parents out here hope to hear those words someday.. ❤

Eee ken dantse weeth aye munkee

I also understood where he was coming from, but I think Daniel's mental state was already unhealthy and adding the video game to that didn't make it any better.

I tend to agree. I don’t think the contents or story/violence of the game was the problem but the addiction was. It doesn’t matter if it was HALO or Dragonvale . Winning, collecting & in some cases the online competition can be very addictive. Some people have the same problem with Likes on Instagram. Combine the addiction with the spinal injury causing him to be housebound for a year and puberty is a recipe for disaster. I imagine the game was often his only escape from boredom and depression.

Mjeah bs. A videogame isn't heroine

​@@Flaschenteufelno, but the neurological impact is very similar. And most heroin addicts start off with softer drugs providing less of a high.

@@Flaschenteufel addiction is addiction. Gambling is not Heroine but people have ruined their lives from it.

This is so true tbh I’ve forgiven awful people only for them to go on and do terrible things to me/others. If there’s anything I’ve learned it’s that people don’t change and not everyone deserves forgiveness

His father was a good man and he needed to forgive his son because he gave his life to God

@user-lz7kq8ne9e good for him. But that still doesn't have anything to do with the horrible act his son did. Some things are unforgivable. Sure, hate is bad, but that's most people's way of coping with anything, saying god this or god that. As long as he finds peace, that's fine. But I hope he never forgets the atrocity his son committed. Also, it's STILL a way to dissacate. I'm a Buddhist and every vile thing that's happened to me doesn't revolve around my religion, my mother abused and threatened to kill me, and I will never forgive her for destroying my childhood. Do I hate her? No, but she has to live with the fact of what she did. I didn't blame what happened on my religion or some deity, I faced the cold, harsh truth and grew from it. And that's something a lot of people who are religious don't do. Instead they give all of THEIR accomplishments to a god that allowed those things to happen. And for what? A sick plan? If it was a person, people would say that individual is terrible. Most people can't picture an existence without a deity looming over them and it baffles me. But I try to understand because it's fascinating how many disregard horrible actions and immediately blame it on "the devil" or "god". Shit happens all the time. And rather than face it, even though it's hard, they neglect truths and basic logic. So again, if that were my family member or a friend or partner, something like that will not be forgiven. He took away a life that did him no wrong.

@Bettersucksaul some do change, but for someone to do this in the first place only reinforces the fact that they had this in them to begin with. I learned the hard way what forgiving vile individuals is like myself, and I agree, they don't change for whatever reason. But mainly because they don't see anything wrong with what they're doing. And that's dangerous in some situations.

I'm not religious in any way, but I find forgiveness for even things as "evil" as this comes easily for me, personally. I've been through some "unforgivable" shit. But there's a difference between forgiving the dog that bit you out of fear because you understand why it bit you, and trusting the dog not to bite you again until the situation has changed (it's no longer a frightening situation), the offender has changed (the dog is no longer afraid of you) or you've grown as an individual yourself (you've learned to calm the dog and make it feel safe before approaching).

Being turned into killing machines isn't the end game ,it is that at the end of the day the child has been exposed to reactive behaviour and they sooner rather than later,act! simple

Reacting less means less empathy. Desensitized

​@@truth4004 yeah to me it still sounds bad. I feel like very young or immature kids shouldn't play this type of games.

@@JustyMe I mean we've all played these types of games and are fine. If people end up having these problems it might just be a mental problem they have.

On the other hand, experiencing it in real life does something to the child. Like dad beating mom on a daily basis, the child will think they have to do that too, as they'll emulate the father (if it's a boy). And no boy would want to emulate a video-game character.

My thoughts also😮

Ummmm, the judge really believed Daniel though his parents would respawn!? Stop it!!

The boy is evil. How could he tell his parent's to close their eyes to give them surprise then shot them? He knew what he was doing and he's a threat to the society

​@@artisthusnatalal3099 The boy wasn't evil. It's clear he was just consumed by anger, and it clouded his judgment. When you are angry, you aren't exactly thinking rationaly.

Yea the judge was correct then gave his personal opinion like the presenter did

if you look at some of the photos they kind of paint a dfferent story from the "outgoing happy teenager" they portray him as...id be willing to be he likely had anger problems from the start or was more unhappy than what we are led to believe

Excuses 😊

@@SirNic4180 that would be if you blame video games, but getting stone cold, no feelings anymore from meds are nothing new - lets keep praise our doctors 😊

..what the...?🤦... your SPINE is not your brain! it play ZERO role in cognition! damaging it does nothing towards altering thoughts!! ...LOL...😂 the meds however might. But those are same meds given to millions of other patients. SO NO, spinal injury itself doesn't alter thoughts, it's NOT A BRAIN INJURY... pls leave the biology alone for those of knowledge.

...a spinal injury IS NOT A BRAIN INJURY!! there is no altered cognition from spinal injuries 🤦 ... kindly leave the biology for those with ACTUAL knowledge.

My mom took me off antidepressants when I was 16 because she was ashamed.

Yep, and in a small town, with him being a pastor, image and reputation are a big thing.

There is a theory that you are born a sociopath and nothing can be done against it except put you out of your misery so you don't take anyone else with you.

You dont need a history of violence to become a killer. Today, you're the most humble person on Earth, tomorrow you're on a spree killing. Just like that.

The scariest psychopaths are the ones who are smart enough to keep their plans to themselves

None of us know if he had a history bc all we have is word of mouth regarding his home situation and him as a person. But honestly he was a teen when this happened, even if he wasn’t violent then he had plenty of time to start

@@AlexVardr Sociopathy is highly correlated with trauma , poverty, and abuse from a young age. Honestly same thing with psychopathy but that one seems to also have genetic links

on the other hand, no regular parent could kick his sick child out of house over a freaking videogame. sounds like religious fanaticism

I was there when Halo 3 came out, it will kill me to have my friends be playing it and not me. The dad was too strict on the boy. This guy looks like he did have some mental issue or genuinely evil but the dad was being too strict didn’t help

I remember one time my dad didn’t allow me to go to science camp, and I still hold a bit of a grudge against him on that. All the children my age going and not me, I still feel left out!

Or, he was just a brat that refused to follow the rules of his house.

@Felix Rios His house, his rules, that's how it works. Those video games have adult ratings. Nothing AT ALL wrong with not letting a bratty teen play them.

And why did he shoot his Mum 3 times when his beef was with his Dad?

​@@TubularBelles Ngl that's what confused me too

i wouldn't put it quite like that but ya

This same song and dance has been happening since the early '90s and literal science has proven that video games do not cause violence.

Took the words right out of my mouth. I was thinking in my head, if you can survive here(Baltimore) you can make it anywhere lol

Mortal Kombat players would be some of the most violent serial murderers on earth.

@@ladynikkie It’s a convenient excuse for bad parenting.

@@richardvinsen2385 bad parenting and a lot of lead exposure… which causes bad parenting coincidentally 🤔

And our favorite thing to do on GTA was to run people over to steal their money, wait for the ambulance to arrive so we could steal it and do missions then run over more people over and over to wrack up as much money as possible before getting caught. 😆

There's just certain personalities that get more addicted than others. This kid had issues to begin with and adding the hours upon hours of gaming didn't help with his mental health. I've been a gamer since the arcade games in the 80's but we had a certain time we had to be home and the games stayed at the arcade. We got the first Atari system but the discipline playing at an arcade stayed with us. This kid had a serious addiction and I've seen so many of these kids killing parents over phones it's definitely a correlation to that 24/7 usage. I saw a video just a couple of weeks ago that showed a kid beating the shit out of his teacher for taking his phone. It's not the game itself, it's being online and never turning your brain off that's become the problem.

@@kimberlyhood4095 I agree! It definitely depends on the person and on their mindset at the time as well!

yeah my brother and I played cops and robbers on need for speed 2 and I'm not driving around looking for police chases

Idk man your whole family might be psychopaths

The boy is evil. How could he tell his parent's to close their eyes to give them surprise then shot them? He knew what he was doing and he's a threat to the society

Evil is totally subjective. Honestly, people sometimes can't control their anger and lack impulse control resulted in this. The blaming of video games comes off as a con for shucksters and grifters, played on the news to get numbers. It's like how they're dying to get a honest-to-God real person and event they can even point to about White Supremests' threat to everything good, etc. in a halfway believable way for the NPCs, so bad that they're willing to try to force round-shaped scenarios into square-shaped narratives. The Truth is, people kill for any and every reason imaginable, in the 3rd world, where right now and influx of people came from and are constantly entering the United States, as it's politicians on both sides that have sold them out and left the door wide open while they took a nap in their room that was double locked (which has it's own fridge, sink, bathroom and bath, luxuries, etc). If video games were the underlying cause, or even just one of the causes, it would've been so common as to be evident the videogames were responsible in some way, I'd imagine. Anything is possible, but if it were so I'd think you'd be seeing every day. Some guy in FL just killed his dad, mom and one of two brothers over a argument involving his spending the families savings on a video chat girl in some Eastern European Shady-Ass Place and him still calling her. I'm pretty sure someone one killed someone over Chicken McNuggets at some point in history. The TV will often be the first to tell you the Zebra Challenge Version of the Truth. On your folks throwing out your AD&D, I had something similar happen at around 15 in which they threw out all of my CDs and some shirts because they were black. I was super upset, and I didn't kill everyone. The fact that they considered that like it was something I would want to do, and that they went for the easy, knee-jerk reaction without going for insight into what I was actually into and listening to and putting in my mind and why, or what I thought about all of it. It was just "we think you're going down a bad path, etc". When you were born as a accidental mistake it becomes fairly evident pretty quickly, if not even as a subliminal, forever-impression, deep, deep in the lizard part of the brain. Remember to always care for the things you really love in a way in which shows how important they are to you, if not just out of respect but to reinforce a realistic view of how someone feels about them. Especially in this New World.

Exactly mine tossed out some parental advisory CD's I had as a teenager but never thought about harming her.

I had my Xbox taken away once when I was a kid. I also managed not to kill my parents and try to frame my siblings for the murder.

The issue here is addiction. He had a strong addition to the video game. And there is plenty of scientific research on addiction showing a strong relationship with violence. Plenty of scientific researching showing that you can be addicted to things like video games. Saying people do evil things because they are evil is like saying drunk people do stupid things because they are stupid. You are ignoring the scientific evidence that alcohol impairs judgment.

Congrats, you have basic morality. What else do you need attention for?

Get higher

probably because you were too weak to fight back thanks to the underdevelopment caused by sitting in one spot for thousands of hours and moving nothing except your fingers while eating purely junk food and drowning in soda/beer

@@saturationstation1446hi troll 🧌

@@saturationstation1446 when I was in middle school?

​@@saturationstation1446 drinking beer and playing games all day when he was in middle school...? And he still had time to go to school to get bullied?

Also thing video games have influenced me to do: pet dogs. Many, many times over

CONTENT dear. You don't understand the problem? Not all video games are good. And many things called game shouldn't be considered game due to malicious content that can't bring meaning of "gaming" but just destroying psyche.

@@SamuraiSx19 ok

@@kinsan89 I added cats to skyrim so i can make make my character pet the cats, lol. Then I go find my cat and pet her, lmao.

@@xladyfayre truly "malicious" content, how dare you /s

Agreed. While I am astounded his father is able to forgive and wants to keep a relationship with his son, my experience in detention and corrections tells me this young man should NEVER be released back into the world. His body language and the tears appear (to me) calculated and intentional. Terrible actions have terrible consequences - he should live with that behind bars until the very end.

absolutely!

I'm sure he listened and understood. But rules are his to enforce as the parent.

I do think they listened to him. But somethings are rules and honestly I don't really think they were extreme. Extreme enough that the son would try killing someone.

Because Jesus would forgive everyone, the dad Is a hero!

Did your husband get help?

sadly anything can become an addiction balance is important.

Addiction is a scary thing. It turns you into all the things you swore you'd never be, and makes you do things you wish you never thought of.

The dad did it and framed Daniel. The giant rabbit hole I went down brought me to this video.

​@@zackhickey4922 He was shot in the head. How does that work?

@@zackhickey4922 clown comment

Some psychos actually don't mind and revel in the 'glory'

Oi! blobster 😊 too true

Have you watched DREADING Channel? He is also extremely respectful & puts the victims first. He's my favorite but this one's close behind😊

@@livstylerewind i will check it out. thank you!

I agree.

Agree. Not eveyone that is injured, becomes depressed and addicted to a game can murder someone, but for some that could be the recipe

If you look at his eyes it can be seen that he potentially had mental problems. Face reading from Japanese criminology should be added to courses for school teachers and parents so they can prevent from early age potential brutal behaviours.

My partner had a horrible accident and, similarly, became addicted to videogames. However, once he learned how to walk again he spent the majority of his time regaining his strength and getting back out into the real world. It all depends on your personality and how you handle those negative feelings about yourself.

Noone is saying video games are the only thing to blame, but they are one of the contributing factors

**Edited for all the people (who can’t read) below, who want to blame the “bit short on sleep” part, rather than the game that trained me to repeatedly hit curbs while driving. When I was playing GTA all-too regularly, I went out for a drive while I was a bit short on sleep. **A BIT short on sleep, meaning maybe 6 or 6.5 hours, instead of my usual 8 hours per night. Not “HALF ASLEEP.” 🤦🏻‍♂️ While frustrated, I made an illegal u-turn and spanked the curb head on. Knocked the vehicle’s front end completely out of alignment and bent the hubcap. I asked myself later how I could drive that badly or do something so stupid. And the answer was, without question, that the curb didn’t seem like as big of a deal to me, because I was used to just driving over curbs in GTA. That isn’t a hypothesis. That is a FACT. **While I was 1: A BIT short on sleep, I’d certainly still slept and much as most people do in a night, and 2: frustrated, in the moment, 3: there’s no way on earth I’d ever just drive into a curb head-on when I saw it coming. That was 100% a result of me being so used to playing the game… Whether you defensive gamers out there like it or not.

As a teenager in the 80's I can confidently state that you're not entirely wrong. My mother burned all of my records in a burn barrel bcuz if you "played them backwards you could hear Satan" 😂

Any time some politician tries to pull the video game thing today it immediately gets shot down by the world. We’re past the point of “debate.”

@@joen8529you just said you were half asleep when you went for a drive… and then blamed the video game 😂

I agree. That was a bunch of weak nonsense

@@gaylebynumcardosa7034ow many cases are there of gamers killing people? Since gaming is so massive I’m sure there are thousands right or millions?

@@gaylebynumcardosa7034 Videogames should not be blamed for anything. A mentally messed up person is to blame.

@@gaylebynumcardosa7034 My apologies. Also, I first thought your profile pic was an anime woman but on closer inspection it is a real beautiful woman lol. Also your name is badass. Have a good weekend!

@@gaylebynumcardosa7034 ❤

Unfortunately their reliance on religion meant they didn't consider he should probably seek therapy after something traumatic.

Both of you took the words right out of my mouth.

Emotional Pain doesn't justify his actions. I feel safe knowing this kid is behind bars

@@sussychachi no one is justifying anything. It's just the context of what happened, because it definitely wasn't because video games makes a person violent

@@KatherineLaura6564 this boy was entitled he even tried to lie and say it was his father because he thought he wouldn’t make it. There are children in warring countries, children that are being abused as we speak and they don’t go round killing their parents. That boy had no worries or struggles in life to do what he did. So what his parents were hard on him they were just trying to raise him with morals and discipline

Yes, exactly. People are so quick to say "oh, that person's just crazy", or something comparable, completely removing the personal responsibility of the individual.

Judge was absolutely correct! A stupid ass video game killed his mother! Come on people!

@@trump-il5wn You're the type to say "guns don't kill people." I agree, they don't. Neither do video games. All empirical evidence suggests zero correlation between violent crime and violent video games. But something tells me you're not a fan of any science other than perhaps the "pseudo" variety.

LMAO, bruh

​@trump-il5wn only an idiot would believe a video game (either the disc or the machine itself) picked up a gun and fired it, lol The kid killed his mother. Was he influenced by the game? Yes. Addiction to anything can make humans do crazy things. Is it the video game's fault? No. Otherwise I'd be in prison too.