Admitted Norway killer Breivik says he trained on video games

[FxMercenary]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Here comes the Video Game Blame Game!

Lets all just ignore the fact that he was a Religious Psycopath that said he was commanded by god to kill. The Media is nothing but a bunch of cowards, looking for any scapegoat at all other than Religion.

Religion is taking away so many lives its disgusting.

That is just my opinion, I do not want to offend anyone.

[Leo_A]

You sound as ignorant as the people you're condemning.

[Oobgarm]

Even letting crap like this register on your radar is a waste of time.

[FxMercenary]

You sound as ignorant as the people you're condemning.

Really?

http://www.examiner.com/article/militant-christian-anders-breivik-wants-to-be-taken-seriously

Anders Behring Breivik, self-described “militant Christian,” wants to be taken seriously, and is complaining that he is the subject of ridicule in court proceedings.


The Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic wants his killing of 77 people last summer to be judged as part of a much larger battle against immigration and multiculturalism, and not as the actions of a mad man. Last July, Breivik killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and then shot 69 at a Labour Party summer camp.

In his online writings Breivik, a right wing Islamophobe and Christian extremist, compared Muslims to Nazis, expressed contempt for multi-culturalism and religious tolerance, and strongly identified himself as a Christian conservative.

Breivik was a fan of Tea Party darling Pamela Geller's rabid, anti-Islam website Atlas Shrugs, and made frequent comments there. Indeed Breivik's irrational fear and hatred of Islam and marxism, coupled with his Christian fundamentalism, makes him an ideological twin to many of the most dangerous members of the American Tea Party.


So... According to you, I am ignorant because I see Religion as a source of ignorance and violence, war and genocide?

You have 1 life on this Earth to live. Do not waste it. Live life, love life, and experience as much of it as possible. Because when you die, that is the limit of our knowledge, nobody knows what, if anything, comes next.

[kedawa]

I guess I must have skipped the mission where you have to gun down frightened, unarmed children.

[Leo_A]

Really?

And guess what, I can find several quotes right now about the subject of this thread and post them up just like you just did about this guy and videogames.

If you don't want things blanketly being condemned out of ignorance, the last thing you want to do to reinforce your argument is proceed to do the same idiotic thing yourself.

Religion and videogames aren't responsible for these things. It's the responsibility of creeps that then proceed to find a scapegoat to justify their decisions or to shift the blame towards. But it's not caused by religion nor is it caused by videogames.

And the media picks up on such things since they make attractive headlines, as you're proof positive of. I can assure you that they expected people that hold videogames in low regard to flock to this article and to share it. And in the same light, they expected the people that get up in arms everytime something with even the vaguest negative hint towards a subject they like or an opinion they dislike to do likewise.

You're no better than the people that will criticize videogaming as playing a significant role in this guy's hate.

[kupomogli]

The Crusades were based off of killing in the name of God and people are fine with that. What's wrong with this guy doing the same? Just kidding btw.

[Griking]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Here comes the Video Game Blame Game!

Lets all just ignore the fact that he was a Religious Psycopath that said he was commanded by god to kill. The Media is nothing but a bunch of cowards, looking for any scapegoat at all other than Religion.

Religion is taking away so many lives its disgusting.

That is just my opinion, I do not want to offend anyone.


That's right. Don't blame gaming, blame religion. That's much less stereotypical. :(

But you know what, so what if he did practice killing with a PC game? The game was no more a tool than a gun, an automobile or a baseball bat is. So when the next killer claims that they were inspired to kill because of the evening news will they try to prohibit the news as well? I'm waiting for someone to bludgeon someone else to death with a cell phone so we can see your next post about the evils of telephones.

[misfits859]

Okay, so we absolutely shouldn't blame religion for having something to do with killings historically? Period? Not buying that one fellas. Stereotyping ain't got nothing to do with blaming religion for murder. God, let's not get into this...

[Leo_A]

Okay, so we absolutely shouldn't blame religion for having something to do with killings historically? Period? Not buying that one fellas. Stereotyping ain't got nothing to do with blaming religion for murder. God, let's not get into this...

Okay...

[Griking]

Okay, so we absolutely shouldn't blame religion for having something to do with killings historically? Period? Not buying that one fellas. Stereotyping ain't got nothing to do with blaming religion for murder. God, let's not get into this...

I'd rather blame a deranged person. My cat told me to kill my neighbor so lets all agree that all cats are evil. Deal?

[The 1 2 P]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/19/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Here comes the Video Game Blame Game!

Lets all just ignore the fact that he was a Religious Psycopath that said he was commanded by god to kill. The Media is nothing but a bunch of cowards, looking for any scapegoat at all other than Religion.

Religion is taking away so many lives its disgusting.

That is just my opinion, I do not want to offend anyone.

I guess you missed when this first made headlines right after he was caught.....last year.

[SpaceHarrier]

The only thing I blame video games for is my inability to buy video games because I spent all my money on video games. I wonder what medium will get blamed after video games are a passé form of entertainment, like comic books..

People always have an excuse for their actions. welcome to human.

[Robocop2]

I must have missed the Sunday school lesson where Jesus tells everyone to kill non Christians......

[substantial_snake]

Meh, if its not religion then it something else.

People kill other people any number of reasons, religion is just an easy target for observers after the fact since it can be twisted or interpreted however the individual wants to view it as. Yes religion has been used in the past as an excuse for atrocities but it rarely was the only reason, many times it was for land or riches with the subtext of "converting the heathens" or some other nonsense. This is not a defense of religion at all but I seriously don't think that any conflicts would be solved by just magically eliminating religion. Besides it sounds as though if you took religion out of this equation he would still have plenty of reasons to go on his insane rampage on his own logic.

Anyways anyone who used COD to "train" is a joke, except in the case of maybe psyching yourself up if your screwed up enough to do something like this. Modern Warfare cannot prepare you for real recoil, loading quickly and effectively, or any problems you might encounter using actual firearms except for MAYBE showing you how to properly chamber a round depending on how accurate the model and animation is in-game. It also really can't teach you effective tactics either with the way the game is setup as a run-in-gun shooter.