This is what happens when Media doesn't understand the subject, All they know is there is a video game involved. Many school have 'minecraft courses' now that teach building, restone circuits and more. This is obviously the parents fault for allowing the child to have access to weapons in the first place, and for not teaching the child that these items can be dangerous and not to play with them.

DUDE that is so stupid.
1.Minecraft has no guns nor knives
2.How'd the dad get a GUN
3.The character is probably a dude from CoD:Zombies

The dad doesn't deserve to have a gun if he is gonna just leave it lying around so his kid can pick it up.

I hope I never meet the father because I'm....

I'd rather have a gun to hunt for my own meat than depending on store bought processed meat. I guess that's not a logical reason for most of this lot though...

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This is why you keep your armaments in a vault under lock and key and not in your drawer.

May contain small parts?

I blame the father, I mean, who leaves a GUN in the reach of a 9 year old? Will people have to buy guns that come in boxes with *WARNING: Keep gun out of the reach of people under 20*?

Lol how can you blame "minecraft" when you let them play on it and further they choose pvp and further seriously the child could have a disease that makes him shoot people[lol]

Stupid ass news and retarded father.

if you want to see violence in minecraft click the server banner in my signature and join that server. there are guns, torpedoes, napalm, and blood splashes, without any client mods needed.

#Icanshootmyfriends

this is the worst attempt at calling a game "violent" in history. wanna bat daddy played DOOM on his atari? "they dig with hammers" ohhhhh, so pickaxes are hammers, now are they? it shows ON THE BOX that Steeve is ready to dig with what? A pickaxe. guns, you say? not in the 360 version! there are currently no possible ways to modify xbox minecraft, and only one texture pack (released by mojang) and that has no guns in it. violence? sorry, but even using a diamond sword, it only turns the attacker red for a moment, and that is about as violent looking as a high five.

The media uses video games as a scapegoat...

That was infinite bullcrap

aman207Saw this on MCF, thought I would post it here
http://www.wftv.com/videos/news/father- ... as/vCDXPx/

This is total BS.
Refer to the chart (Got this from PMC's Facebook page)

http://i.imgur.com/ll98AT0.png

#politicianlogic

Bulgaria sounds like a nice place to live

after readiing this my goal is to become the best parent ever

you are stupid. only cause 1 little kid which dont knows that weapons are that dangerous brings a weapon to shool you say its a violent game. u just want views. and what is the use of the views for you? thats just stupid

minecraft doesn't have guns,hammers, or knifes.

These sort of things will always happen, no matter what game the kids play. If I do something wrong or forget about something, my parents almost always blame it on minecraft, completely forgetting that I did the exact same things before minecraft even existed.

It is possible that the kid watched some let's play with a gun mod, but even if it had been a myLittlePony game, the parents would have blamed that.

Here's what I'd like to say. It's a little off-topic, but it's also something that's been mentioned on this post a few times. (This will probably start a flame war, but I just want to get my opinion out there. Maybe someone will agree.)

Firearms should NOT be legal. Why the hell would you need one, and why the hell should you have one? The only people that DO need them are soldiers and meat farmers (y'know, ones that slaughter their cattle and stuff for food). Why would you need one for self defense? To protect yourself from someone with A GUN? Seriously, people! Legal firearms are just encouraging the "fight fire with fire" attitude which is out-dated and unnecessary (also very bad).

What the heck is wrong with other countries? In Bulgaria every kid from the year of 5 plays Counter strike, battlefield, COD, GTA, 6+ hours every day. Yes, all these bloody violent games that make you "an uncontrolable murderer" yet noone killed anyone, kids never brought a knife or a gun to school, people hardly ever get murdered here. VIDEO GAMES DO NOT MAKE YOU MURDER PEOPLE! That is to every retarded parent that can't keep weapons away from their kids and can't take responsibility for things and blames video games and what not else. The problem is that countries just can't control guns and the stupid parents. And yeah the only people who make kids murder are parents, they just provide them guns without even knowing it.

Zemor

Buttsauce

ZemorDoes it also make you happy to know that the UK is considered the "violent crime capital" of Europe?

No, but it does make me happy that my overall chances of encountering a homicidal maniac with a knife are much higher than my overall chances of encountering a homicidal maniac with a gun.

Criminals will get guns whether they are legal or not.

So wait....you would rather be disarmed and fighting a person with a knife than person with a gun. Why would you NOT want a firearm in that situation?

Because, shocking as it might be, I would rather not hurt another human, even in self-defense.

Feel free to consider it a cultural difference. I believe it's also responsible for my inability to get my head around the fact that there are responsible gun owners who oppose gun control. Funny thing, this cultural difference stuff.

I'm going to tackle some of these points.

Doctor_of_darkJust going out on a limb to say a few things....

1) The concept of violence is different from view to view. Some think that simply killing things regardless of how it looks is violent, down to those who think that unless there is blood and gore everywhere the violence is minimal. It's preference.

I honestly believe minecraft to be VERY low on the violence spectrum compared to most games kids have access to these days

According to Merriam-Webster, violence can be defined as:

the use of physical force to harm someone, to damage property, etc.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/violence

2( Weapons in schools is a serious issue I agree, but this kid is 9, he is still at that awkward stage where you don't think straight due to your young-ish mind. The father has some blame for this as he should've described the pain these kinds of things can cause, and teach his son the "Guns don't hurt people, People hurt people' phrase till it was bleeding out of his ears.

Again, the weapons themselves can't hurt someone on their own. A videogame can't hurt someone on their own. It all comes down to the person who plays the game and uses weapons to know this. (unless its a case like CreeperCarole stated earlier about medication being a factor as that is a recurring theme in recent shootings)

A gun is a tool. A hammer is a tool. Guns themselves do not harm people, as they need someone to operate it (except in the case of freak accidents, of course).

The issue of weapons being taken to school with intent to harm innocent people is a problem, yes, but gun control is not the way to fix this. Disarming good people does not make bad people harmless.

3( (Personal opinion FLAME SHIED ACTIVATED)
I think humanity should learn it's facts. In this generation of instant news where if something happens we know almost immediately, facts are BOUND to get skewed. Especially amongst those groups in the media that bend facts for their own gain. As stated earlier, video games have helped lower violent crimes, have increased hand-eye co-ordination, reaction times, decision making, etc. Yet we are still using it as a scapegoat for violence. While I will admit that it's not as constant of an excuse as medication problems, or mental problems, is still something I see, and is something that annoys me.

Learn your facts humanity, and perhaps learn to take blame on yourself when you do something wrong. Cause if you don't, your children won't, and their children won't, and so on....

And on another note, as stated the kid was "Acting out" minecraft. While it is easy for us to blame the media, or the games, or whatever, we need to blame the root of the issue. The parents or guardians thinking "Oh my 8 year old is WAY to smart to take my pistol to school after playing this rated E+10/T/M game". Don't buy your kid a game you know has serious violence in it, UNLESS YOU ARE 100% CERTAIN, you can trust their judgement. (In my opinion at least)

Thank you and goodbye

The effect video games have had on the crime rate is minimal at best. from what I can gather from the below source.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02 ... nce-hmmmm/

Like they point out, we must be careful when claiming that violent video games cause violent crime to drop. We don't know if violent crime statistics would drop further if violent video games didn't get so popular.

One thing is for certain though: violent video games do have an effect. It is called desensitization. It may not occur for all people, but I'm afraid I have already been desensitized to a lot of things.

Give the father a break, he is probably too thick to know guns aren't toys for your kids.

But seriously though I have a degree in psychology. And I find that video games don't cause people to do violent things, in fact I would go as far as to say the violent the better. Let the little hoser play the games, they let the animalistic impulses out. Especially before puberty.

Just going out on a limb to say a few things....

1) The concept of violence is different from view to view. Some think that simply killing things regardless of how it looks is violent, down to those who think that unless there is blood and gore everywhere the violence is minimal. It's preference.

I honestly believe minecraft to be VERY low on the violence spectrum compared to most games kids have access to these days

2( Weapons in schools is a serious issue I agree, but this kid is 9, he is still at that awkward stage where you don't think straight due to your young-ish mind. The father has some blame for this as he should've described the pain these kinds of things can cause, and teach his son the "Guns don't hurt people, People hurt people' phrase till it was bleeding out of his ears.

Again, the weapons themselves can't hurt someone on their own. A videogame can't hurt someone on their own. It all comes down to the person who plays the game and uses weapons to know this. (unless its a case like CreeperCarole stated earlier about medication being a factor as that is a recurring theme in recent shootings)

3( (Personal opinion FLAME SHIED ACTIVATED)
I think humanity should learn it's facts. In this generation of instant news where if something happens we know almost immediately, facts are BOUND to get skewed. Especially amongst those groups in the media that bend facts for their own gain. As stated earlier, video games have helped lower violent crimes, have increased hand-eye co-ordination, reaction times, decision making, etc. Yet we are still using it as a scapegoat for violence. While I will admit that it's not as constant of an excuse as medication problems, or mental problems, is still something I see, and is something that annoys me.

Learn your facts humanity, and perhaps learn to take blame on yourself when you do something wrong. Cause if you don't, your children won't, and their children won't, and so on....

And on another note, as stated the kid was "Acting out" minecraft. While it is easy for us to blame the media, or the games, or whatever, we need to blame the root of the issue. The parents or guardians thinking "Oh my 8 year old is WAY to smart to take my pistol to school after playing this rated E+10/T/M game". Don't buy your kid a game you know has serious violence in it, UNLESS YOU ARE 100% CERTAIN, you can trust their judgement. (In my opinion at least)

Thank you and goodbye

well psh
who plays survival minecraft anyways?

This combined with that song about foxes and the goverment shut down is urging me to suicide

WTF is this.

Well first off the parent does not know how to hide his weapons from his own child. 2nd off minecraft is so close to violent I get the mods with the guns but Xbox MC does not have mods/guns. And last this is just shocking that the court would press charges to a kid who thought it had all of this. The kid did not know what he was doing and he will be punished for his parents fault of not checking his backpack or seeing if there was anything odd. If this kid could hear me now he should think that it was not his fault he is a young kid who loves this amazing game. Well that is all I have to say =3

minecraft is meant to be a survival game based on how you would survive irl(besides the treepunchin' stuff).
apparently irl, the father digs things up with a hammer
waaaat
meh, america lol

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