Stephen King's Horror of His Own Hypocrisy

King should stick to fiction. If he does not like guns, he should not have them and hang a sign outside his house saying so. The rest is none of his damn business, just as it should not be anyone else's! m/r

Stephen King: NRA Should 'Clean Up Blood, Brains and Chunks of Intestine' After Next Massacre | NewsBusters
by Noel Sheppard | January 26, 2013 

"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."

So wrote horror writer Stephen King in a Kindle essay Friday entitled "Guns."

"[P]lenty of gun advocates cling to their semi-automatics the way Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson clung to the shit that was killing them," King wrote in his 25-page essay.

Not surprisingly, there was a lot of hypocrisy in King's piece noting "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."

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