Over the weekend of March 17 and 18, a household in Mississippi is being questioned after a 9 year old boy shot his 13 year old sister using a gun he had found in the parents, bedroom. The incentive for the child to use the handheld weapon against his sister was due to an argument the two had over a video game controller, eventually leading to the shooting and death of the 13 year old daughter.

“This could have easily been preventable, it shocks me how these incidents are still coming around,” freshman Jack Corcoran said.

The mother, who was in the house during the incident, was preparing lunch for the two in the kitchen when she heard gunshots. The 9 year old boy had previously known that the weapon was hidden in the parents, night table, and used it on his sister when she ‘refused to give up the controller.’

“The mother had to have been aware they were fighting, they were most likely yelling and stuff before he realized that wasn’t working,” Corcoran said.

Monroe County Sherriff Cecil Cantrell talked local news reporters on Sunday, noting that the bullet had gone through the back of the girl’s brain, pronouncing the girl dead at the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. The girl was further flown to the Le Bonheur hospital after needing more care then where she originally was sent to, a hospital in Amory, Mississippi.

Incidents such as these are the base of President Donald Trump’s opinion on violent video games and movies mentioning they are ‘shaping young people’s thoughts.’ Although researchers have proven that violent video games and movies are not the cause to mass shootings, Trump’s claim is not the first of its kind. In the 1940’s, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia blamed the common game Pinball, which was previously banned in the city for more than 30 years, for adding violence into the real world.

“I can see why people think this way, but I also see why people think that violent games and movies are perfectly fine as they don’t make the largest difference between sane and insane,” Corcoran said.

In 2007, Mitt Romney also made a similar claim after an armed student at Virginia Tech killed 32 people. Romney said that ‘violence’ in music, movies, TV and video games were to blame for the shooting there and the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School.