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"I'm gonna roll this down like GTA!" 14 year old girl opens fire with AK-47 on police

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For those of you won't don't think there is every any link between video game violence and actual violence:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/us/florida-deputies-shooting-teen/index.html

You may not want to open fire on the police after playing GTA, but not everyone else thinks or believes as you do.

You're probably too stupid to understand this, but anyway

Stuff like this happens due to severe mental illness. It has nothing to do with videogames. Anything could've been the trigger, literally anything. A movie, a TV show, a book. Anything. Murder porn is everywhere these days. It doesn't help shitholes like Reddit and CNN villainize police as well.
Both kids were in foster care so obviously they're severely fucked up in the head, probably thanks to their ex-parents. The girl more than the boy, by the sounds of it.

The fact they could break into a random house and find a fully automatic military assault rifle is peak America
 

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The fact they could break into a random house and find a fully automatic military assault rifle is peak America

Where did automatic come into this? The article linked did not mention it (only thing for auto is the name of the game). Nothing in a few other token searches on other reports either. I would equally imagine CNN would be all over it if it was automatic.
 

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A 14-year-old and 12-year-old shouldn't have access to GTA games, but more importantly, they shouldn't have access to shotguns and handguns wtf. Very much a tragedy, but we know where the vast majority of blame should fall in this case, and it isn't on video games.
 

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Grand Theft Auto is a M for mature rated game and both of the kids weren't old enough to legally play it. Sounds like their guardians fucked up with that. That's all I can say right now as I didn't read the article yet.

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A 14-year-old and 12-year-old shouldn't have access to GTA games, but more importantly, they shouldn't have access to shotguns and handguns wtf. Very much a tragedy, but we know where the vast majority of blame should fall in this case, and it isn't on video games.

So I read the link and by the way you commented you sure as hell didn't. They (the two children) ran away from a group home and broke into a random house, stole the guns and assaulted the police with them. The home owner wasn't home at the time and did nothing wrong. Your hatred of the second amendment is apparent.
 
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So I read the link and by the way you commented you sure as hell didn't. They (the two children) ran away from a group home and broke into a random house, stole the guns and assaulted the police with them. The home owner wasn't home at the time and did nothing wrong.
If kids of those ages can get a hold of both your guns and ammunition that easily, you're absolutely doing something wrong. It's called a gun safe, what kind of fucking moron has armed weapons just lying haphazardly around their house? Yosemite Sam?
 
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If kids of those ages can get a hold of both your guns and ammunition that easily, you're absolutely doing something wrong. It's called a gun safe, what kind of fucking moron just has armed weapons lying around their house? Yosemite Sam?
I don't think those people were expecting someone to break into their home and use their guns.
 

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I don't think those people were expecting someone to break into their home and use their guns.
Isn't that at least half the point of owning guns? For home protection? Not very effective if they're just as easy to access for thieves and murderers.
 
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Isn't that at least half the point of owning guns? For home protection? Not very effective if they're just as easy to access for thieves and murders.
Doesn't a safe defeat the purpose of protection. When you have to put in a combination while a thief is attacking you. In a high stress situation you won't put the code in quick enough and you'll be dead before you get access to your own guns.
 
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Doesn't a safe defeat the purpose of protection. When you have to put in a combination while a thief is attacking you. In a high stress situation. You won't put the code in quick enough and you'll be dead before you get access to your own guns.
A four-digit code will slow you down maybe ten extra seconds, which shouldn't be a problem as long as you have doors that lock. It's also a bit of a slippery slope to just carrying a gun on you at all times out of fear. But even that makes more sense than leaving your guns out in the open when you aren't even home.

The video game industry, hollywood movies and tv shows, and the main stream media promote the gun violence more than anything else.
So yes there is a connection and if you think otherwise, you are a fool!
Lol all of that just reflects America itself. Violence sells here, even better than sex. If it didn't make so much money they wouldn't keep showing it to us.
 
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Doesn't a safe defeat the purpose of protection. When you have to put in a combination while a thief is attacking you. In a high stress situation you won't put the code in quick enough and you'll be dead before you get access to your own guns.

Some places require a gun safe if you have children in the house and some don't. If they didn't have any kids living there at the time and left guns out in a display case or loosely around the house they had no way to know some troubled children would break in and steal them.

What interests me is the girls confession or testimony. I'd like to hear the reason that motivated her to mention GTA in her rampage.
 

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What interests me is the girls confession or testimony. I'd like to hear the reason that motivated her to mention GTA in her rampage.
I don't know how well she'll be able to articulate her motivations, but the long and short of it is that she's young and impressionable, and probably had some family issues at home. "Going GTA on his/her/their asses" is something me and my friends used to joke about all the time.
 

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A four-digit code will slow you down maybe ten extra seconds, which shouldn't be a problem as long as you have doors that lock. It's also a bit of a slippery slope to just carrying a gun on you at all times out of fear. But even that makes more sense than leaving your guns out in the open when you aren't even home.


Lol all of that just reflects America itself. Violence sells here, even better than sex. If it didn't make so much money they wouldn't keep showing it to us.
In a stage of fear and panick, it last longer then 10 seconds. Especially when you pause in fear trying to make sense of the situation. And I doubt many people are trained soldiers where you learn to handle that pressure better.

I would keep it under a mattress or in a draw or something like that.
 
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I don't know how well she'll be able to articulate her motivations, but the long and short of it is that she's young and impressionable, and probably had some family issues at home. "Going GTA on his/her/their asses" is something me and my friends used to joke about all the time.

I had the same thought. Maybe she just rambled it off for no real reason other than to sound cool. I've also incorporated sayings with GTA quotes that I use in jokes. Though I think if she could use the game names in her rampage she'd be able to explain why. Well, that's if they don't dope her up before testimony.
 

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I don't think those people were expecting someone to break into their home and use their guns.
I will say that it was extremely reckless for the homeowner to have had his guns and ammo be so easily accessible to anyone breaking into their house. Countries like Japan have gun laws that require the gun and ammo to be locked in two different safes. The gun is also required to have its trigger locked when being stored. This is to prevent kids or anyone else to gain access to the gun. There's also added security to make sure if they did gain access to the guns, they then need to gain access to the ammo. What I am not trying to blame anyone for having their property stolen but suggesting that preventive measure should and need be in place.
 

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In a stage of fear and panick, it last longer then 10 seconds. Especially when you pause in fear trying to make sense of the situation. And I doubt many people are trained soldiers where you learn to handle that pressure better.

I would keep it under a mattress or in a draw or something like that.
If you're prone to panicking under pressure or when being awoken suddenly, keeping a gun within arm's reach is the worst idea possible. Unless perhaps there's a certain friend or family member you're looking to be rid of.
 

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