[Shoeless joe]

I wanna know how the kids were able to buy shotguns and ammo for them without their parents finding out or even being carded to see if they're of age. Also, isn't there some waiting period on buying guns in the States that prohibits anyone from getting a gun w/o a background check? And shit, even if the guns were in the house, you'd think that the parent(s) would be sure to keep 2 shotguns locked up.

I'd have to say that the action of attaining 2 shotguns, either through stealing them or buying 'em illegally, constitutes that there was a clear intent to hurt people and that they had to of thought their actions out beforehand. I think that it's pitiful that the kids can blaim a game and get away with it, thus leaving them and their equally moronic parents scott free and the finger pointed at our fav game companies. Also, it contributes to the blatantly incorrect view that kids are sponges that can't think for themselves and that parents are always the supportive types when, in fact, they'd have to care little to nothing about their kids to have let things get out of hand like that (remember Colombine? I think so.)

In short, let's ban guns, not games. Hell, i've never seen a drive-by NESing before, nor will i ever. And we may have to do something about that paranoia that the States have developed over time, cause hell, it's become a sort of dependancy for the majority to have enemies. Only then can people get their heads outta their asses and see the true stpidity behind having to anatgonise scape goats and focus on the real problem: themselves.