Man Charged in Little Girl's Shooting Death Amid Feud Over Video Game

[seriousstan]

Man Charged in Little Girl's Shooting Death Amid Families' Feud Over Video Game
DETROIT (AP) - A man was charged Wednesday with the drive-by shooting death of a 7-year-old girl. Police said the bloodshed was the result of a dispute between two families over a missing video game.
"Her young life was taken as a result of an argument of no consequence," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement.

Police said Ronald Kirk Brown, 42, opened fire Monday at a house while Deva White, her 8-year-old brother, grandmother and a family friend were inside. The bullet apparently crashed through a front room window, hitting Deva in the chest. Brown was arrested Tuesday and arraigned Wednesday on a first-degree murder charge.

The shooting allegedly grew out of a dispute between the families of the suspect and the little girl, police spokesman James Tate said.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBNSMSD82E.html

[Ima]

1. Unbelievable

People are going nuts.

[drhilarius]

2. It reminds me of the film "28 Days Later"...

a pathogen called "rage" runs rampant through the population, making us turn against and cannibalize one another.

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. I think that may be loose on DU

;-)

[Timebound]

4. You're probably right.

It must be loose...

But really, that is terrible. What POSSESSES people to do such HORRIBLE things?

[Der Blaue Engel]

5. I don't think it's really anything new

I think humans are frequently despicable.

[FDRrocks]

6. The conservative parties will twist this into another Video Game violence

dispute, when it was actually about property, ostensibly, and probably many other incidents.

This is friggin tragic. I hope that guy is miserable in prison, and am glad that he didn't accomplish as much human damage as it seems he set out to do.

[The Minus World]

7. The Blame Game

Certainly, they will. Although, it could very well have been a dispute over a pastry, considering the context of the crime. If so, would the accusations come crashing down against Sara Lee?

In this instance, it was not the actual content of the video game that incited an act of violence, but rather the man's undoubted maladjustment and violent tendencies in response to a frustrating situation. This animal should be locked up until he realizes that murder is not the solution to all disputes. Perhaps he's taking lessons from our great leader?

[Voltaire99]

8. Sorry, that's not it

Surely you aren't naive enough to believe that a culture soaked in violent entertainment isn't expressing its deepest desires through that media.

No, I don't want to control video games, or any media. But we must be honest about the society that places violence at the core of its leisure: it isn't sane. To pretend that the media it consumes is ancillary to its madness, rather than central to it, is superficial.

[The Minus World]

9. I beg to differ.

If you read the text of the post you responded to, I never made any allegations about video games and their place in our culture of violence. I was referring to this specific incident, stating that the disturbance of a man who would shoot a child, runs much deeper than the content of the video game being played.

I agree with every point you made; I agree that a culture centered around violent entertainment cannot possibly be sane, and that movies and video games play a large role in perpetuating such a misguided transvaluation of values. However, I don't any of that to be relevant to the comment I originally posted, which dealt with the sanity of the perpetrator, not with the sanity of the culture which fostered him.

[DrWeird]

10. You know, you're right.

This culture has WAY more violence in it than other cultures.

:eyes:

[Djinn]

11. you do seem to kill each other at a rate higher

than most developed nations - I don't think it's a gun thing per se but you do have some seriously fucked up people in your midst

[DrWeird]

12. No, we're not talking about real violence.

It's the video game violence that's bringing down society. Just look at the Japanese. They're video games and TV are ridiculously violent. And it's a fact that they have the highest murder and mutilation rate in the industrialized world.

[Djinn]

13. not according to everything I've seen

that priviledge goes to you guys - I'm not all that au fait with this topic though so I may very well be talking crap here - even if you're not the highest you'd have to be up there.