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.
Why the downvotes? Lol. This is accurate for that time period.
Mimfenko Splish? Aw gee. Thanks Mom and Dad
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?
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.
I feel particularly bad for the mother (and any siblings). She lost a husband and a child this day.
Great country you have there America
Either the dad was a prick or the kid is a psychopath that belongs in a mental institution.
Or the accusation is wrong, or circumstances are unknown, or maybe even something else :)
I think a little bit of both.
"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.
