John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman was obsessed with the book "Catcher in the Rye." Columbine High School shooter Eric Harris avidly tinkered with the first-person shooter "Doom." History is littered with murderers inspired by art: Charles Manson believed the lyrics to the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" were a prophecy that ignited a killing spree. The world was reminded of this Thursday when Anders Behring Breivik revealed to an Oslo court that the popular military game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and the online role-playing game "World of Warcraft" helped condition him for his bombing and shooting rampage that left 77 people dead last summer in Oslo and at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoya island. LOS ANGELES - Life imitates art - no matter how ugly.
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