Not a lot; just a slide-step or two away from the kumbayah socialists of the left and the Tea Partiers of the right. In the wake of the Charleston shooting that left nine people dead at the hands of 21-year-old gunman Dylann Roof, who was reportedly on psychotropic medication at the time of the killings, King took to his Twitter account to denounce the “proudly closed minds” of people who are against gun control. King, famous for writing books including Misery , The Shining , It and Carrie says in Guns , which was released as a short ebook on the Kindle Singles platform, that “strict gun control would save thousands of lives.” Public domain photographs via Flickr Commons. Gun owner Stephen King adds his voice to the gun control debate. In the end, this sort of ban can be accomplished in only one way, and that's if gun advocates get behind it. Like? Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces in this country decide to do a similar turnaround. Even Stephen King admits that Rage was a part of the problem; hence, his personal sense of accountability came into play and caused him to withdraw the book. I can hear people laughing and saying pigs will whistle and horses will fly before that happens, but hey, I'm an optimist. To claim that America’s ‘culture of violence’ is responsible for school shootings is tantamount to cigarette company executives declaring that environmental pollution is the chief cause of lung cancer. The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie. Stephen King will write the last chapter of the series, providing a new coda that isn’t found in the book. 43 likes. Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces in this country decide to do a similar turnaround. Published January 28, 2013 Gun control activist David Hogg announces new board member for his pillow company and Twitter howls with laughter 12h. For the bullied underclass — the wimps, the shrimps, and the girls who are routinely referred to as scags, bags, or hos — it’s four years of misery and two kinds of hate: the kind you feel for yourself and the kind you feel for the jackwads who bump you in the halls, pull down your shorts in gym class, and pick out some charming nickname like Queerboy or Frogface that sticks to you like glue. Most Americans who insist upon their right to own as many guns (and of as many types) as they want see themselves as independent folk who stand on their own two feet; they may send food or clothes to the victims of a natural disaster, but they sure-God don’t want charity themselves. Out comes the dramatic music and the BREAKING NEWS chyrons. By Maria Popova. In likening the current state of American political dialogue, including the debate on gun control, to “drunks in a barroom,” King argues the solution lies in the bursting of the “filter bubble”: If I could wave a magic wand and have one wish granted, I’d wish for an end to world hunger; the small shit could wait in line. Ultimately, King returns to the ethics and rationale behind his decision to revoke Rage, echoing Anaïs Nin on character and responsibility: I didn’t pull Rage from publication because the law demanded it; I was protected under the First Amendment, and the law couldn’t demand it. You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it. Horror fiction master and mega-selling author Stephen King waded into the raging national debate on gun control over the weekend, publishing a personal essay supportive of the individual right to bear arms but pushing for new laws to curb mass shootings like the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December. In the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, gun advocates have to ask themselves if their zeal to protect even the outer limits of gun ownership has anything to do with preserving the Second Amendment as a whole, or if it's just a stubborn desire to hold on to what they have, and to hell with the collateral damage. Few of the trigger-pullers are middle-aged, and practically none are old. If you take a close look at the dozen top-grossing films of 2012, you see an interesting thing: only one (Skyfall) features gun violence. Stephen King has argued that people who oppose gun control laws have "closed minds". A new voice has entered the national debate on gun control, best-selling author Stephen King. —. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price. And yet, that doesn't seem to have stopped Ryan Lanza, or James Holmes, or any of the other notorious shooters of recent memory. ― Stephen King, Guns. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity. Can't HEAR you! The final tally was 35 dead and 23 wounded. So argues Stephen King in Guns — a short Kindle e-book in which the celebrated novelist brings his uncompromising lens, at once passionate and rationally composed, to the issue of gun violence in America. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 18, 2015. Yet I did see Rage as a possible accelerant, which is why I pulled it from sale. We will also see, time and time and time again, how easy it is for the crazies among us to get their hands on portable and efficient weapons of mass destruction.