In a recently released 25 page essay entitled “Guns”, horror author Stephen King wrote “One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these [violent] scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander’s last meal.”[1]
So if this mindset is true and gains a rise and interest out of the “liberals” that support the current US President, then they should demand President Obama to take a vacation in Yemen and Pakistan and show up to clean up the “..Blood, Brains and Chunks of Intestine” of the dead children caused by a predator drone strike that he ordered.
Back in 1999, King had a broken leg, hip and a punctured lung after being hit by a car near his house in Maine.[2] The motorist was distracted by a dog in his vehicle and lost control, yet King did not release an essay about car control called “Cars” that fully supported the banning of vehicles or restriction of driving with a dog companion.
King wrote in his essay “how many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys? Do the murders have to be in the mall where you shop? In your own neighborhood? In your own family?”[3]
This comes from a writer who regularly writes about horror, death and kidnapping who would surely defend his writings by creating a cynical essay blaming guns for the violence, and not the user. “It took more than one slim novel to cause [these teenagers] to do what they did,” King wrote.
King concluded his essay with “a trio of reasonable measures to curb gun violence”[4]:
1. Comprehensive and universal background checks.
2. Ban the sale of clips and magazines containing more than ten rounds.
3. Ban the sale of assault weapons such as the Bushmaster and the AR-15.
Some say that these 3 measures would do little to nothing in preventing a mass shooting in a gun-free zone because the people within those zones are still walking targets. Also, a magazine for an AR-15 or any type of gun could be reloaded within seconds using a ready mag allowing the shooter to still deal the same amount of damage (demonstrated in the video below in 2.5 seconds).