Oslo Murders Lead to Calls For Game Bans in Australia

Jegsimmons

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leave it to Australia to yet again...miss the point...and people thought fox news was going to go crazy, they barely mentioned him playing games at all. Australia is makeing Fox news look better on this subject!

this was a nutjob who was politically motivated. nothing more, nothing less.
 

Mr.Squishy

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D0WNT0WN said:
"Christian Extremist plays games in his spare time when not planning mass murder."
Not "Extremist Gamer goes to church on Sunday when not planning mass murder."

Planning mass murder and carrying it out is already quite illegal so I think it would be much safer to ban Christianity in Australlia instead of Videogames, after all videogames wasnt his motivation.
This! FFS this! I speak as a Norwegian (who lives less than an hour from where the shooting occured), and I've read parts of his memo. He was an extreme christian and extreme rightist! The killings were politically and religiously motivated, while video games were mentioned in the same breath as going to a restaurant or watching TV. And hell, he hunted a lot as well, so one may blame that as well while we're pointing fingers.
 

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Baresark said:
Hmmm, I liked Castlevania.... think I should go kill some kids... I mean VAMPIRES!



OT: They are just using this as an excuse for holding back something that only the Australian government wants.

"The bigger concern is his history of active hunting, with high powered weapons, rather than his playing computer games."
I would say that he was mentally unstable and that is the biggest concern. What he did with his free time is completely irrelevant. Just more excuses as to how it's not the guys fault for his own actions. "It must be GAMES!".... "it must be his love of HUNTING".... all these things are complete bollocks in the face of what happened. Everyone should be concerned with the fact he was indifferent enough to blow up Oslo, then kill a camp of children from the Labor Party. There is no way he is stable or sane.
While hunting in no way would make anyone go crazy it still helps when it comes to handling weapons which I think the article meant.
 

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Honestly? I was expecting someone to point at games as being the ultimate evil here..but I never expected an australian politician to stand up for them.
 

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The Australian government saying that the Oslo madman's killing spree shouldn't lead to a violent video game ban in taht country?! WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!

Also, I give the aussie gov't two weeks before they blow through the "cool points" they got from this action.
 

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Australia, please just vote these fucking morons out -- its not like they represent the public's views of shit...
They aren't even in power.....they just like saying shit like this as a "look at me, look at me" kind of response.
 

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fundayz said:
It just happens that their system requires an unanimous decision and therefore a couple of politicians were able to hold back M-rated games for the whole country.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. That is a very stupid system and it needs to be changed to either simple or 2/3 majority.

OT: Why am I not surprised. Hold on a second.

*checks List of Things that Piss Me Off for ACL*

*sees that they are on there*

*adds them again*
 

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"Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Jim Wallace".
Why is this holier than thou guy Wallace screaming on the top of his lungs to blame it on games?

Good question! Well...
This killer is an extemist Christian, is he not?
Dreaming he is an actual CRUSADER???!

So I subject that games did not *influence* him at all, as he used to be in the actual army!

And most importantly; what a huge douche to try and ABUSE an extreme tragedy as an excuse to get his anti-game stance some tissue thin sense of validity.
 

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Aww man, I was so close to liking the Australian govern- wait, what? They're standing up for games?

...I don't know what to think anymore.

The year 2011: Duke Nuken Forever gets released, Team Fortress 2 goes Free2Play, and the Australian government stands up for games. Maybe 2012 will be the apocalypse.
 
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So, a right wing, Christian extremist goes around killing innocent people and planting bombs, and is shown to be a violent psychopath, SOMEHOW has a link to video-games.
you know, these 'Christian' groups make me want to go on a killing spree, lets see if i can smuggle a few Kalashnikov's, a KAMAZ, a T90, and a giant robot gundam mecha Stalin into Australia....
 

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I think every country should ban COD using this logic and so make FPS gaming a better place once more.
 

Stein Inge

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These scumfucks should be tarred and feathered!

Using the slaughter of kids to further their own cause?!

EDIT: How dare they call themselves christians?!
 

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As long as we're being consistent, why don't we ban Christianity and Conservatism, too?
 

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Baresark said:
Hmmm, I liked Castlevania.... think I should go kill some kids... I mean VAMPIRES!



OT: They are just using this as an excuse for holding back something that only the Australian government wants.

"The bigger concern is his history of active hunting, with high powered weapons, rather than his playing computer games."
I would say that he was mentally unstable and that is the biggest concern. What he did with his free time is completely irrelevant. Just more excuses as to how it's not the guys fault for his own actions. "It must be GAMES!".... "it must be his love of HUNTING".... all these things are complete bollocks in the face of what happened. Everyone should be concerned with the fact he was indifferent enough to blow up Oslo, then kill a camp of children from the Labor Party. There is no way he is stable or sane.
The hunting may have been indicative of this, though.

Most serial killers don't just magically turn that way. Usually they 'start' on smaller animals, and move up until they reach humans. So having fun by blowing the heads off deer with a high powered rifle kind of shows that the person isn't in a great mental state.

Video games are just kind of 'whatever' because it's virtual. Hunting is actually killing things.
 

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Thus was Australia's Banhammer brought out once again for everyone to see, before being quickly bundled up and deposited in the closet once more.
 

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Absolutionis said:
A Christian Group is calling for the bannings of video games because a fundamentalist Christian commit an act of terror upon Muslims?

I don't understand.
The only other thing that they'd be able to do is ban their own religion. Wouldn't that be a laugh?
 

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The killer also wrote a manifesto. Maybe its creative writing and literature that pushes him over the edge. We shoud stop teaching kids how to write that way they don't write manifesto's and kill people in order to get attention. That would prevent this from ever occurring again. Thank god Australian's are being proactive; they're only on the other end of the world from Oslo, they're lucky nothing bad happened./ sarcasm

I really miss common sense, sure he may have been a buzz kill sometimes but overall he was a good guy.
 

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I find it hilariously ironic that a Christian group of all things wants to ban video games in some non-existent link to actual violence. But hey, while we're on the topic of banning things with links to violence, why not review a little?

-millions killed in the name of their god
-promotion of misogyny for the better part of the last 2000 years
-promotion of racism and social Darwinism for the better part of a millennium
-exploitation of the intellectually challenged
-massive human rights violations
-sanctioned murder and repeal of rule of law in the name of celestial justice
-spreading of false and directly harmful health advice
-brainwashing of little children
-roughly two millennia of mental, physical, and sexual abuse of children
-deliberate attempts at stifling the education of children with regards to science
-actively involved in restricting scientific research, and publicly shaming/silencing contesting scientists

I could go on, but I think I made my point. No throwing stones in glass houses, mkay my cosmic jewish zombie worshiping friends? Besides, how about we back our arguments up with some studies? And I do mean real studies from psychologists that haven't been the laughing stock for us real scientists. No need to include sociological studies, those are all worthless anyway. Appealing to fears and tragedies is just about the lowest form of argumentation, and I do find it unfortunate that such pathetic lines of reasoning are even publicly tolerated anywhere. It's bad enough that 76 people had to die, but to misrepresent what drove a 32 year old christian islamophobe and right wing extremist psychopath to do what he did is downright disgusting. Shouldn't you guys be leading by proper example, and not make the rest of us painfully aware of what wretched hypocrites you are?