i guess this is a way in the right direction, to save our children life… UNDER VIRTUAL INFLUENCEGerman Retailer Takes Violent Video Games off ShelvesFollowing a horrific school shooting, German retailer Galeria Kaufhof has decided to pull violent video games from its shelves. A political debate on instituting an outright ban has also erupted. German retail chain Galeria Kaufhof is pulling violent video games from its shelves. Beginning in April, the company announced this week, games with 18-plus ratings will no longer be sold in its department stores. Kaufhof's decision comes in the wake of a horrific school shooting in the southern German town of Winnenden earlier this month. Ubisoft/DDPTim K. spent the night before his violent rampage playing the 18-plus video game Far Cry 2. On March 11, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shot 12 people to death at the Albertville secondary school - including nine pupils - before killing three more during his escape attempt. Investigators say the teenager was fond of playing "Counter Strike" and had played "Far Cry 2" on the night before his brutal rampage. Both games are considered excessively violent and cannot be sold to anyone under the age of 18. Although there is a current political discussion taking place in Germany about the merits of a general ban on violent video games, the company this week acted on its own. "These inhumane things should be taken off the market as fast as possible," the interior minister for the state of Hesse, Volder Bouffier of the conservative Christian Democrats, told the Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung newspaper. The politician called for a blanket ban on the creation and sales of so-called "killer games" source: Der Spiegel
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