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Norway store's cans 51 video games after norway attack

July 29, 2011 in News comments 6

A nation known as a peaceful bastion of liberalism exploded in a convulsion of sheer hatred. After a terror attack with a bomb and shooting video games are taking heat after the person that did it said he played games like world at war and used games like modern warfare 2 as a training tool. Now some of the largest retailer are removing these games from there store shelf's due to a large backlash.

Coop Norway has announced it is to stop carrying 51 gaming brands previously available to customers, after the horrific events in Oslo and on Utøya, including CoD4: Modern Warfare and World of Warcraft – games which the perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik claim to have actively played.
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    redneonfish Jul 29, 11
    Horrendous use of the apostrophe aside, I completely understand why this would be the immediate reaction and I expect in a few weeks these games will return to stores once rational thought returns.
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    Bale Fire* Jul 29, 11
    I suppose I can understand removing them for a limited time, but this had better not be permanent. I mean what if this guy had read a book or watched and movie and said it influenced him?

    Sounds like overreacting to me.
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      Seproth Jul 30, 11
      Yeah, I would agree. It's tough to be like "that's bullshit" cause what happened was bound to cause a reaction.

      Even so, it screams of "we gotta do something" just to look proactive in some shape or form.
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      Big A2 Jul 30, 11
      Video games are always treated unfairly. Apparently, the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Regan watched the film Taxi Driver almost 15 times (the film includes a scene where the protagonist attempt to assassinate a politian). Did Taxi Driver start disappearing from video store shelves? Of course it didn't.
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    Aussie Legend Jul 30, 11
    Looks like they might become a new Germany/Australia.
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    WhisperintheWind Aug 2, 11
    Yeah, always count on some psychopath to give anything a bad name, be it video games, books or movies. While I completely understand Norway's reaction, imagine what would be done if the terrorist had said "I read Dean Koontz novels and they inspired me" or "Watching United 93 (or some other 9/11 memorial movie) gave me the idea"... I mean really?

    Why is he even going around blaming a video game to begin with?

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