Please dear God, boy.
This thing's hard.
Here I come, there's my final time.
You wasn't expectin' this, boy!
My son is addicted and obsessed with violent video games.
I hear your guns.
Video games are my son's number one priority.
He plays when he wants, where he wants...
And for as long as he wants.
He has stayed on for up to 20 hours.
He never comes out of his room to eat with us,
but he will yell out from his room,
pheasant, bring me a plate.
The two games that he really likes to play the most
are Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite.
He gets very excited about the number of kills
because the more kills you have,
the higher you go in the game.
It makes him very aggressive.
His favorite game right now is Grand Theft Auto.
It is very violent.
They rob, shoot, kill, beat.
And everything they do is demeaning to women.
When my nephew's playing the video games,
he's very rude and disrespectful to the people
that he's playing online with.
He plays the game online with adults
and the language that they use is absolutely horrendous.
I'm gonna kill you, beat the (beep) out of you
and piss off.
And that's transferred over to his mom.
When I tell him, watch your language,
he'll tell me to shut the (beep) up.
He will turn over furniture, he breaks dishes,
he has basically destroyed his room.
How would you like your death to be?
Death by Nate?
These violent games have desensitized him
from actual pain and death.
He has been bullied.
I am scared that he will take the behaviors
that he's learned in the game and retaliate.
He could become another school shooter.
This is something that I feel like I could deal with
in 30 seconds or three hours,
depending on how I approach this but,
if you're so desperate, why did you not write in?
Why did your sister write in?
Nine times.
I guess I'm just complacent to it.
I'm used to it.
I feel like I know what's wrong with him.
My question is, what's wrong with you?
(audience applause)
You let a 12 year old child yelling get in here peasant,
bring me this, and what do you do?
I do it.
You do it.
He locks you out of the house in the freezing rain
and holds a sign up to the window,
I will let you in if you go get me Starbucks,
and you go get it.
Now, come on, help me, I'm just an old country boy,
you have to help me understand how this makes sense?
I've been in school for the last 18 months
and I'm gone four nights a week,
12 hour shifts on the weekends
and his dad has had an anxiety disorder
and heart issues and so physically and emotionally,
he wasn't able to handle him.
And so by the time I got home from work,
I work 40 hours a week as well
so by the time I got home, I'm just so tired
and mentally and physically exhausted
that I would just do whatever I had to do to keep the peace.
Now his dad passed away in September of last year, right?
And, from a heart condition correct?
And your son barely shed a tear, right?
Yes.
In fact, he said hey, people die, moving on.
What do you think?
I mean, you're looking at this,
you're there every day, I just met you guys.
The way that he treats her is just deplorable
but I think she was crippled a little bit by her husband
in the way that he kept things super secret.
So she wasn't allowed to talk to me about it.
She wasn't really allowed to talk to anybody about it
and so when she finally started opening up to me,
and I realized oh my goodness,
he is really cussing you out,
he's really doing these things,
then that's when I wrote in originally.
At that point, I thought maybe
she'll take control and it'll get better.
And it just got worse.
