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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Thursday, August 4th, 2011


Following the tragic massacre in Norway, Call of Duty has been pulled from two major retailers. Not only has Call of Duty been removed from shelves, but other violent first person shooters have also been pulled.

One of the stores, called Coop, made a statement saying:

Originally posted by another user

"In light of Friday's horrific events, and out of respect for those affected, we have chosen to remove selected items from our range."

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: World at War Platinum, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Classic, Homefront, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Counter-Strike Source, and World of Warcraft have all been pulled from the store shelves at Coop.

Another store chain called Platekompaniet has also removed various shooters and other games from it's shelves.

Although the shooter from the incident, Anders Breivik, stated he had very little interest in first person shooters, he did state:

Originally posted by another user

[Modern Warfare 2 was] "part of my training simulation…You can more or less completely simulate actual operations."

Breivik did spend a lot of time using video games, but he was more geared towards RPGs and fantasy titles. He was a self proclaimed World of Warcraft addict. It is believed he made the claims of addiction to cover up the time he spent meticulously planning his attack.

So what are your opinions? Do you think that these games should have been pulled due to the attack? Are his claims that he used violent, first person shooters to plan his attack justification enough to deprive consumers of a product that they have the right to purchase?

Notice how I said that I'm not talking about muslims, but muslim extremists. Yes, nearly all religions have extremists, however Islam is by far one of the most "Feared" or "Active" in the area I'm in, so I used them as an example. I have nothing wrong with muslims, or their religious basing.

Personally, I find this comment to be in bad taste. There is little humor to be found in the massacre of innocent people.

Notice how this event is terrorism at it's absolute peak, but I haven't heard the word ''terrorist'' used once in any report. I wonder why. No muslims involved in this mass murder? Oh, it's not terrorism then.

GRRRR

On-topic, I too noticed Battlefield is missing from the list. Maybe because it's not as outright hectic as CoD with the killing.

Games being banned because of lunatics doing things like this is ridiculous. They should ban TV, music, movies and everything else that can influence people then. Stupid.

World of Warcraft? lol

Hah, I have them already, and Mw3 is pre-ordered. =D

Where did you pre order MW3?

Very nice.

Local Gamestop in Norway, they still sell CoD.

i dont get why this guy would need a game to train its not that hard to just open fire with a gun