Jim Sterling of Destructoid wrote an excellent article pointing out the obvious flaws in thinking that a video game could possibly have helped train a terrorist to do what was done in Norway. At this point it is getting tiresome to have to repeat the same basic logic over and over, but when a killer specifically cites a game like Modern Warfare 2 as part of his "training", it just fans the flames all over again.
Ugh.
I won't bother to repeat anything Jim already said, but I will specifically point out that I have never played a game that taught me how to load and arm a gun, what kind of ammunition to use, how heavy it was, and how much recoil it had. If you believe a video game could be used as firearms training, the same could be said for pointing and clicking a mouse to navigate this webpage.
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