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In reply to the discussion: Stephen King on the NRA... [View all]bluedigger
(17,086 posts)63. He got rich telling stories people wanted to read.
And to accuse him of opportunism and self promotion in taking a stand on gun control is laughable.
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.
In Guns, a strongly argued personal essay written in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings, King discusses these earlier incidents:
He goes on to attack both politicians' and media responses to gun tragedies, and also dismisses many of the arguments put forward by gun owners, writing that "plenty of gun advocates cling to their semi-automatics the way Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson clung to the shit that was killing them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/stephen-king-ebook-guns-_n_2551128.html?utm_hp_ref=books
In Guns, a strongly argued personal essay written in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings, King discusses these earlier incidents:
It took more than one slim novel to cause [these teenagers] to do what they did. These were unhappy boys with deep psychological problems, boys who were bullied at school and bruised at home by parental neglect or outright abuse.
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My book did not break (them) or turn them into killers; they found something in my book that spoke to them because they were already broken. Yet I did see Rage as a possible accelerant which is why I pulled it from sale. You dont leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it."
He goes on to attack both politicians' and media responses to gun tragedies, and also dismisses many of the arguments put forward by gun owners, writing that "plenty of gun advocates cling to their semi-automatics the way Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson clung to the shit that was killing them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/stephen-king-ebook-guns-_n_2551128.html?utm_hp_ref=books
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Should be a sign in every single street in America, north, south, east west
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#1
Quit reading from this point...a poster below is equating Stephen King with NRA death merchants...
JoeBlowToo
Jan 2013
#29
Has he not gotten rich off the describing and vicarious experiences of normal human beings
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#4
Rhetoric? I didn't write the delightfully entertaining gore. And yes, he is a freaking hypocrite
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#15
No, not a hypocrite at all unless you bash what I presume to be online gaming. Go for it...just
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#26
Fiction and Non-Fiction/Fact. One is created in the mind, the other has a real history.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#66
There is also a big difference between writing about violence and abetting violence as the NRA does.
Squinch
Jan 2013
#77
Neither do guns...so I hear. He's not a real good spokesperson for non-violence.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#47
No, they should not link it opportunistically to real-life gore. Fiction on, but stay out of the
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#52
If we need a fiction novelist to help people understand that people use guns to kill people...
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#58
He referred to a current blood and gore event...it's the outrage of producers of fiction that
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#18
Really? I will even buy part of that in a literary, liberal, apologist kind of way, but "Dude",
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#21
Sweetie, seriously. Are you scrambling up the refrigerator word magnets for these posts?
Squinch
Jan 2013
#80
Sweetie? Hmm. I get you don't get it. LaPierre juxtaposed against fantasy morgues doesn't cut it.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#83
Fantasy execution of your vicarious mental gratuities juxtaposed with words doesn't cut it. Dude.
Squinch
Jan 2013
#85
Actually, he's writing his next book based on DU characters that live on another planet but think
graywarrior
Jan 2013
#61
He crossed the Line. When he linked himself with LaPierre, he crossed the line between fiction
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#51
There really is a difference and a line between imagination and reality. Amazing to have to state.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#55
If there is no award for stupidest fucking post of the decade, there should be...
Bonobo
Jan 2013
#62
I am unconcerned about his political affiliations ... he needs to stick with what he does...Fiction.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#67
By that reasoning, unless your career is to voice your opinions on websites, you should stick with
Squinch
Jan 2013
#81
Sorry, fail yourself and no backs! (That seems to be the level at which you would like your
Squinch
Jan 2013
#84