Note To Parents: Keep the Guns and Video Games Separate

Remember when they used to be like “OMG, Grand Theft Auto is going to turn all the kids into thugs!!!” ? Well, it didn’t. I mean, it’s a pretty healthy and cathartic way to get out energy, I think. I mean, if you can kill someone in pretend life, you probably wouldn’t be so apt to do it in real life, right? Just my thought.

Anyway, remember when they also said not to keep loaded weapons next to video games because kids could be looking for the video games and instead find a gun and kill themselves?

No? Well, that’s because it’s SO FUCKING OBVIOUS NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO SAY IT!

Jose Alvarado put a loaded handgun in a backpack that held his 8-year-old son’s video games, authorities say.

The next day, little Jose Alvarado found the gun and shot himself in the chest in the bathroom of his family’s Allentown home, the authorities say. He died within the hour.

On Wednesday, Jose’s father was charged with involuntary manslaughter and related crimes in the Jan. 8 accident that Lehigh County’s top prosecutor called ”preventable.”

”As a father, Mr. Alvarado violated a duty of care and placed his young son in harm’s way,” District Attorney James B. Martin said. ”Leaving a loaded gun in a child’s backpack that contains the child’s games is inviting trouble. The father may as well have left it in the child’s toy chest.”

Alvarado, 26, was arraigned by District Judge Patricia Engler and sent to Lehigh County Prison under $2 million bail.

According to an arrest affidavit:

Allentown police were dispatched to a 911 call at 8:08 a.m. Jan. 8 for a shooting at 1124 Allen St., the Alvarados’ home. The boy’s two brothers, ages 2 and 5, and his parents had heard the gun go off and found him in the second-floor bathroom.

Jose was pronounced dead at 8:58 a.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. The Lehigh County coroner’s office ruled his death an accident.

Police found a small backpack in a pool of blood where the boy had been. The pack, which was open, contained five video games and movies. Police searched the home and found another loaded magazine for the 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and a plastic soda bottle that contained a hidden compartment for cocaine. Source

The police failed to mention that the bag also contained Alvarado’s “Father of the Year” award.

Seriously dude? Fuck you. This guy should feel lucky this is all he is getting charged with. Sadly, I bet him living the rest of his life with this shit on his shoulders won’t weigh too heavily on his mind,  you know, in between getting new guns and doing cocaine.