ONTD
Stephen King has entranced millions with tales of dread but his latest
volume will read like a horror only to the National Rifle Association
and other gun-rights advocates. The best-selling author made an
unexpected charge into the national debate on gun violence on Friday
with a passionate, angry essay pleading for reform.
King, who
owns three handguns, aimed the expletive-peppered polemic at fellow
gun-owners, calling on them to support a ban on automatic and
semi-automatic weapons in the wake of the December shooting at Sandy
Hook elementary school which left 20 children and six adults dead.
"Autos
and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction. When lunatics want to
make war on the unarmed and unprepared, these are the weapons they use,"
King wrote.
He said blanket opposition to gun control was less
about defending the second amendment of the US constitution than "a
stubborn desire to hold onto what they have, and to hell with the
collateral damage". He added: "If that's the case, let me suggest that
'fuck you, Jack, I'm okay' is not a tenable position, morally speaking."
I find it shocking and unbelievable that apparently Stephen Kind doesn't know what semi-auto means. Is that possible? I like the rest of what he says very much. How about you?