13-Year-Old Gamer Planned School Massacre

It seems unbelievable that a 13-year-old gamer planned school massacre to take revenge on the person who gave him poor marks, according to The times.

The boy, named Bastien, was arrested in Beauvais, 60 miles (96km) north of Paris, on Tuesday morning, hours after leaving his home with a loaded shotgun and 25 cartridges. And the polices were called by his folks finding a note on his blog saying: “This is my last muzik and certainly the last because Tuesday, November 17, 2009, will be the last day of my life. Sorry to leave you . . .”

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This is not the first shot and not the ending, too.

Why did the teenager intend to kill his teachers? James Juan, the local prosecutor, said that the boy had “wanted to attack his teachers because they found fault with him even though he had done nothing wrong”. Friends said that Bastien — usually near the top of his class at the highly competitive school — was upset that his teachers had recently given him middling marks.

It is said that the backstage manipulator of transforming a lamb into a attempted murderer is violent online games. And Bastien himself had been devoted to World of Warcraft.

A boy who described himself as Bastien’s best friend said: “He always wanted to go into the army. He loved battles. He was passionate about history, warriors. He played video games up to one or two in the morning. I didn’t think that he would be capable of something like this. I don’t think he wanted to harm anyone.”

Though it is an arbitrary decision that ascribe the problem of teenager to games, games filled with violence and porn jeopardize teenagers' growing. That's why the governments, German, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc., ban that kind of game. Recently, Russia government is planning to forbid Activision to sell Modern Warface 2. Many countries establish a Video game content rating system to protect their children. And there are questions: Why the 13-year-old boy can access into a violent online game and Why so many people can break the age limitation on Rating 18+ games website via any birth date they want and what their parents are doing when teenagers are playing these harmful games?

Bastien is likely to be charged in court today with attempted murder. Police said that he was in good health and did not appear depressed. He would face a maximum 20-year prison term if found guilty.

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The people in the photo is not Bastien.

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