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Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game

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Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game

ELYRIA, Ohio – Although a teenager's obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took "Halo 3" away from him, a judge ruled Monday.

"I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever," Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said.

Nonetheless, Burge rejected the defense attorneys' argument that Petric, 17, was not guilty by reason of insanity.

The defense didn't contest that Petric shot his parents in October 2007 after they took the game away from him, but insisted that the teen's youth and addiction made him less responsible.

Petric may have been addicted, but the evidence also showed he planned the crime for weeks, said Burge, who found the teenager guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges.

Tried as an adult, Petric faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole. The judge didn't set a sentencing date.

Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game - Yahoo! News

The impact of video games on random violence in this country needs to be studied.

Resume your denials here.
 
Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game



Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game - Yahoo! News

The impact of video games on random violence in this country needs to be studied.

Resume your denials here.

If video games were truly the cause of this kind of thing it would be far more widespread. To me it sounds like a spoiled teenager got his game taken away and he overreacted because of it. The story neglected to say if the kid had mental or anger issues, which very well could be the case by the sound of it. It's not like he killed his parents in a style that mimicked Halo 3 or any other video game. I know that you seem to have an ongoing crusade against video games, but why stop there? What about music? People used to blame heavy metal music for the same kind of crap.
 
Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game



Ohio teen convicted of killing mom over video game - Yahoo! News

The impact of video games on random violence in this country needs to be studied.

Resume your denials here.

No. Not at all. The impact of unruly spoiled brats not getting a the ass whippings they need should be studied. The video game was just an element of circumstance, not a causation.

Resume your pointless and irrelevant crusade now.
 
.....I wonder whether bhkad also advocates studying why kid grab their parents guns and kill em on what seems like an everyday event in America. But I seriously doubt it.
 
.I wonder whether bhkad also advocates studying why kid grab their parents guns and kill em on what seems like an everyday event in America....
-That- only seems like an every day event for those that reject reality and substitue their own...
 
If video games were truly the cause of this kind of thing it would be far more widespread. To me it sounds like a spoiled teenager got his game taken away and he overreacted because of it. The story neglected to say if the kid had mental or anger issues, which very well could be the case by the sound of it. It's not like he killed his parents in a style that mimicked Halo 3 or any other video game. I know that you seem to have an ongoing crusade against video games, but why stop there? What about music? People used to blame heavy metal music for the same kind of crap.

Not every life long smoker dies of cancer or heart disease.

Ever think you'd be in the same rhetorical boat as the heads of Big Tobacco?
 
-That- only seems like an every day event for those that reject reality and substitue their own...

Did you get the point of my post? Or were you cleaning your gun while reading? It's okay. You can tell us.
 
Not every life long smoker dies of cancer or heart disease.

Ever think you'd be in the same rhetorical boat as the heads of Big Tobacco?

More people will die of cancer or heart disease as a result of smoking than will be killed as a result of video games. See, cigarettes actually contain chemicals that cause these things. Video games don't contain inherently harmful things that will make people kill others. The fact that you would seriously try to compare the two is absurd and laughable. Like I said earlier, if it were truly a problem it would be far more wide spread than a random news story every now and then.
 
No. Not at all. The impact of unruly spoiled brats not getting a the ass whippings they need should be studied. The video game was just an element of circumstance, not a causation.

Resume your pointless and irrelevant crusade now.

He admittedly may have been a spoiled brat but he was being given the "ass whipping" tough love you suggest when he murdered his mom.

And what about the kid who never posed a discipline problem until he went Game Crazy Berserk? I seem to recall some normal kids and good students who scored impressive real life kill totals. Would such kids have warranted "ass whippings," too?
 
More people will die of cancer or heart disease as a result of smoking than will be killed as a result of video games. See, cigarettes actually contain chemicals that cause these things. Video games don't contain inherently harmful things that will make people kill others. The fact that you would seriously try to compare the two is absurd and laughable. Like I said earlier, if it were truly a problem it would be far more wide spread than a random news story every now and then.

I take it you are a Gamer. As such might your perspective be a little callous?

After killing thousands of zombies and elves and other animated bad guys your sensitivity is obviously lessened. It shows in your comment above that excuses game related deaths by comparing those relative few (it SHOULD be zero if it was as safe as some gamers would contend) people who died due to Game Craziness with the millions who have died from smoking.

Some practices in life are more hazardous than others.

Because Influenza deaths are fewer than Cancer deaths doesn't mean that we should stop getting flu shots.
 
After killing thousands of zombies and elves and other animated bad guys your sensitivity is obviously lessened.
This presumes that one cannot tell the difference between real zombies and animated zombies.
 
.....I wonder whether bhkad also advocates studying why kid grab their parents guns and kill em on what seems like an everyday event in America. But I seriously doubt it.

I've noticed that you lose a bit of coherency when you get excited.

I can't tell what you mean here.
 
I take it you are a Gamer. As such might your perspective be a little callous?

Actually not really. I have a game system, but I rarely play it. I think video games are just a way to waste time if you have nothing better to do. Nice attempt to prematurely judge me though. :roll:

After killing thousands of zombies and elves and other animated bad guys your sensitivity is obviously lessened. It shows in your comment above that excuses game related deaths by comparing those relative few (it SHOULD be zero if it was as safe as some gamers would contend) people who died due to Game Craziness with the millions who have died from smoking.

You know, in an ideal world most things would cause zero deaths. Life is fragile. There are plenty of things out there that have caused deaths too. Should we get rid of those things as well? The problem is that you are automatically relating the behavior of this story to the video game as if that is the main cause of the problem. Yet you have no idea about the mental issues that this kid has or whether he has anger issues. This story is really nothing more than another one to throw on the pile in your ongoing crusade against video games. I think everyone gets what your agenda here is.

Some practices in life are more hazardous than others.

Because Influenza deaths are fewer than Cancer deaths doesn't mean that we should stop getting flu shots.

Oh, absolutely. However, smoking is far more hazardous than playing video games. That's why I quit smoking. But I know plenty of people who are regular hardcore gamers and they are the same nerdy bastards that they were before. The games don't suddenly make them violent people. You have nothing to back up your absurd claims other than these ridiculous stories that pop up once in a while.
 
This kid obviously had problems, and I doubt those problems were caused by video games. Furthermore, the gaming industry is one of the largest now, video game consoles are found in many many homes not to mention gaming PCs. The shear number of people playing games in some manner is astounding. If video games caused problems, we would see well more than a few isolated cases every couple years related to video games. It has been study, no correlations were found, end of story.
 
That you make stuff up?
Yes, I got that. Its not new.

ScienceDirect - Aggression and Violent Behavior : Parricides : : Characteristics of offenders and victims, legal factors, and treatment issues

Parricides account for about 2% of all homicides. Perpetrators are typically White middle-class males without a history of prior criminal convictions. Most parricides involve single-victim, single-offender situations, with firearms more likely to be used against fathers than mothers. The popular literature as well as much of the professional literature have presented youths who killed a parent as prosocial individuals who feared for their lives. Adults who killed a parent have typically been presented as suffering from a severe mental disorder. These two scenarios describe many parricides. However, major mental disorders among youthful parricidal offenders, conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder as well as other psychiatric comorbidities also occur in a significant proportion of parricides. Youthful and adult offenders experience different legal outcomes and receive mental health services in differing contexts. We review offender and victim characteristics, as well as legal and treatment issues, and outline needs for future research.

Would you like to try again?
 
I kinda agree with Bkhad. I don't share his extremist views, but I do find lots of these interactive violent games a little too violent and real. This kid is 17, I don't know how old he was when it happened, it didn't say, but Halo 3 is most likely an MA game for mature adults- which a 17 year old is not. I just think we have created a violent society where violence is celebrated and we are just reaping those seeds with these things happening almost daily and most people acting like that type of thing is normal. You can't show a nipple on tv without people having heart attacks but violent murders don't blink an eye, what's up with that?
 
I kinda agree with Bkhad. I don't share his extremist views, but I do find lots of these interactive violent games a little too violent and real. This kid is 17, I don't know how old he was when it happened, it didn't say, but Halo 3 is most likely an MA game for mature adults- which a 17 year old is not. I just think we have created a violent society where violence is celebrated and we are just reaping those seeds with these things happening almost daily and most people acting like that type of thing is normal. You can't show a nipple on tv without people having heart attacks but violent murders don't blink an eye, what's up with that?

I agree with you there. Sex is taboo, but violence is okay. That's a whole separate issue though. If parents don't want their kids to play such video games they shouldn't buy them or allow their kids to buy them. The rating system is there for a reason. I still don't think that there is something inherent in the video games that will make a kid kill others. It's not video games that are the problem. It's the fact that the violent games are made available to kids by their parents or whatever.
 
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