One day I was browsing the web and came across a story of a 17 year old kid who killed is mom and shot his dad because they took halo 3 away from him. He tried pleading insanity because he didn't know people don't re-spawn after their killed in real life. It was rejected. Over the past couple years I've come across many cases of kids killing someone and saying that they thought it was OK or that they didn't know they were in real life. In most cases I do believe that these kids couldn't tell the difference, but the video games are not the problem its usually the individual not being able to tell the difference.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/boy_killed_mom_and_shot_dad_ov.html
Good example. By the age of 17 he should realize that real life isn't exactly like Halo 3.
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