It's my birthday! Thanks for present (a gun I will use to kill you)

Dad buys his son a gun for his birthday.

Boy uses gun to kill his dad.

Not sure this counts as trivial news.

But it counts as "random, violent" news.

Do people outside of South Carolina (or even in the state) really need to know about this story?

Why is this national news?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/18/south.carolina.family.shot/index.html?hpt=T2