Stephen King and the Second Amendment | National Review Online
His novels tell a different story.
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| Not just Guns, Stabbings with Scissors! |
Stephen King has declared his support for gun control in an 8,000-word essay published by Amazon. In it, King condemns the NRA and advocates banning guns with more than ten rounds. He even goes beyond Obama’s pledge to protect hunting rifles and calls on hunters to give up “their sporting toys.”
To some extent, King accepts the argument that violent novels can act as a “possible accelerant” to school shootings. Hence, he had the publisher of Rage — a story he wrote about a disgruntled student shooting his algebra teacher and holding a class hostage — pulled from publication.
But these novels also act as an argument for the Second Amendment.
In The Stand, after millions of American citizens are wiped out by a “superflu” created in an Army lab, the libertarian argument of how helpless an unarmed citizenry would be in a country where only criminals and the Army have guns is validated in the book’s black-helicopter America. Televised broadcasts show citizens in a lethal gauntlet between the army on one side and far-left terrorists on the other. Freedom of the press is eradicated as broadcasters are forced to read government propaganda with a gun literally pointed at their heads. The First Amendment is briefly resumed only when the news crew smuggles in guns, but they are soon executed by the more advanced weapons of an invading army.
When survivors are able to arm themselves, much good is done and lives are saved.
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