As a writer, I have three personal heroes: Robert Penn Warren, Hunter Thompson and Stephen King [View all]
Robert Penn Warren is the reason I became a writer. Hunter S. Thompson is the reason I write politics. Stephen King is the reason I know how to do it.
Robert Penn Warren taught me that words can be music. Hunter S. Thompson taught me that passion belongs in political advocacy. Stephen King, however, taught me the most important lesson of all: Writers write.
In this, King has combined all three lessons.
Stephen King's eBook 'Guns' Attacks NRA, Gun Owners, Politicians Over Inaction And Hypocrisy
The author Stephen King today published Guns, a powerful essay about gun culture, in which he calls on gun owners to support the ban on semi-automatic weapons.
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.”
He added that "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 cancer."
King, known for being a Democrat, is a gun owner, stating in the piece that he owns three handguns. He also has a tangential relationship to previous school shootings, as a number of teenage gunmen in the 1980s claimed to have been inspired in part by King's novella Rage. That story was originally written by King as an adolescent, and is about a teenage gunman. It was later published under the pen name Richard Bachman. Following the shooting incidents, King requested to his publisher that the story be pulled from circulation.
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