I’m really getting sick of hearing the same story told over and over again and the masses (especially the mass media) coming to the same conclusion every time. video games are not the problem. movies arn’t the problem. comics arn’t the problem. music is not the problem. books arn’t the problem. stage isn’t the problem. heck, cave drawing’s arn’t the problem. ART ISN’T THE PROBLEM. PEOPLE ARE! but that’s us. all it is now is the news going around going “why would sombody do this” every time there’s a school shooting or something. and than if it get’s big enough the polletitions go and find the easyest scape goat. plan and simple. and so is the answer. the anser is it dosn’t matter. it dosn’t matter what games they played, or if they where drunk. they did something wrong. they’re getting punished. don’t do what they did. end story

let’s just be happy there isn’t a new grand theft auto out right now or we’d never hear the end of this.

why must the innocent suffer for the wicked’s stupidity?

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What kind of a person does this? Gets wasted and then decides it’d be really cool to start physically abusing some little kid?
If you look at Heather’s ‘mug shot’ you can clearly see that she looks depressed. REALLY depressed. Like she’s realized what kind of a situation she’s in, and theres tears in her eyes depressed. And she damn well should be – she’s now fully responsible in the brutal death of her own half sister, and if sentanced she could spend 48 years in jail.

That’s right, 48 years.

That’s your entire life in one sentance. Just the quick verbal decision could put this girl and her boyfriend in Jail for the rest of their natural born lives. Think about it, they’re teenagers. They’ll never get to go to college, find their passion in lives, get a job, drive a car, go to the beach, bask in the sun, have a family, grow old with old friends and live life. Nothing. And honestly? I hate to sound like the most cold hearted bastard in the world, but they deserve it. And I’d like someone to prove me otherwise.

It kind of irritates me that every article on this story I’ve read has in the title “Mortal Kombat”, when the reality of it, already pointed out by Angel, was this had nothing to do with video games. At all. The title should read in every paper – “Drunk and deeply disturbed individuals responsible in the brutal beating to death of a child”. People need to stop making dumb connections to the world of entertainment and need to start making sure that people like this get the help, or in this case, severe punishment that they deserve.

If they had not played Mortal Kombat- would they have still done this horrible act?

Where is the responsibility in people these days!!!??