US boy, 11, allegedly shoots father to death after Nintendo Switch taken away

[no_hypocrisy]

5. 40 years ago (1986), my friend's son was seven years old.

His mother improvidently put a TV in his bedroom as a pacifier.

Naturally, the kid stayed up all night watching shows and was catatonic in school the next day from lack of sleep.

My friend took fatherly steps to correct this. He removed the TV while his son was at school.

His wife/the kid's mother actually laughed that their son was going to attack his father with a baseball bat in retaliation.

Fast Forward: Last April (the kid was now 45 and still living at home), the son literally attacked his father with a baseball bat after a long Half-Nelson around his neck, nearly killing him.

The story in the OP doesn't surprise me at all. In the minds of some kids/sons, taking out their father solves everything wrong in their lives.