After the world shocking mass murders allegedly performed by Anders Breivik (picture) 10 days ago, retail chains in Norway are pulling violent video games off their shelves and as usual, violent video games are targeted as the main motivator of the shooting .
Coop Norway, one of the Norway's largest retailers, announced late last week that they will be removing over 50 video games and weapon-like toys from their shelves in the aftermath of the Oslo/Utoya shootings.
Among the titles affected are Homefront, Counter-Strike, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, World of Warcraft and various Call of Duty games. According to statements made to Norwegian newspaper Rogalands Avis, the ban on these games is apparently only temporary, but no reinstatement date were announced for gamers to continue to buy video games.
Coop Norway Retail director Geir Inge Stokke said, "The decision to remove the games was made around the time we realized the scope of the attack. Others are better suited than us to point to the negative effects of games like these."
Stokke added, "At the moment it's [appropriate] for us to take them down. I wouldn't be surprised if others do the same. We have to think very carefully about when to bring these goods back. The economy involved is of no importance."
A comment someone posted awhile ago:
"I even heard he drank milk once! They should ban that too."
18 comments:
Sigh, I'm so tired of this, from the picture he looks like a grown man, there is no excuse least of all videogames. I truly believe that if anything videogames prevent people from doing stuff like this because it acts as an outlet.
Btw the milk comment at the bottom was a riot! :)
Liberal governments and their kneejerk reactions. Honestly saw it coming though -__-
Of course! I must be the video games! Nobody murdered anybody before the 80's.
lol too silly
That's unfortunate, but at least it's supposed to be temporary.
Oh norway, you so crazy. We should have taken rc planes off the shelves after 9/11. *rolls eyes*
Video games don't make people kill, chances are that person was already suffering from some mental issues, and would have committed that crime regardless.
Not a good move, Norway.
videogames are usefull, you can lose a lot of stress by playing them
Can't say i agree with norway on this one
Just because of call of duty, wow.
A genuinely terrible idea :\
24 carat muppetry right there
This is still the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
I think it's ridiculous to ban violent video games. The largest massacres in history had been executed without the aid of video games - I doubt these contribute much, if at all.
This is plainly ridiculous. I'm pretty sure a major survey in the US showed that there's no correlation between video games and violent crime anyway...
This is so silly.
that's so damn stupid. They first shut the guy up, and now they go after video games. At least Anders is so right about the liberalization in Norway.
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