Tragedy recently struck Norway in the form of a deranged man who set off a bomb in Oslo and went on a shooting spree at a youth camp. Nearly one hundred people are known to be dead, with many more people still counted as missing.
The accused killer is quoted as saying he used Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 as a "training simulator"....
I started writing this article with the intent of making the point that COD isn't a training simulator and that video game violence is not at all a cause of what sparked this tragedy, as is already being brought up by various news outlets. But that is not fair. It's not fair to the victims or their families. Instead of trying to blame this or that or explain why games do not correlate to violence, let's all just take a moment out or respect for the dead and give a thought to all those affected. I won't give this nut job any more coverage than he is already getting, and I won't use this heinous act to try and argue for or against video games. If all we can do is use this to try and get a point across, than maybe our priorities and values are a little out of whack.
Writing about games and life, and sometimes confusing the two.
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