Stephen King is famous for making up tall tales. From “Salem’s Lot” – a tale about politicians sucking the lifeblood out of Maine locals (just kidding) – to “Christine” (a story reminiscent of Richard Matheson’s legendary “Duel”) with its possessed, self-driving car, he’s spun words better than many political speechwriters to deliver pretend messages that have thrilled and chilled millions.
But, like so many other ill-informed or uninformed Americans, Mr. King just took a page out of his own fictive universe to callously lay the blame for multiple homicide on, you got it, an inanimate object: the tool that the alleged killer used.
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Awr Hawkins reports for Breitbart that King June 16 used his writing skills on X to spin a yarn in just a few words, writing:
“Vance Boelter is clearly as nutty as a fruitcake. The real culprit is the gun he used. They’re everywhere, and it’s years too late to put that genie back in the bottle. Nuts are gonna do nutty, violent things, and guns are easily obtainable.”
And, as one might expect, he was ratioed. Getting comments such as:
“LOL, dude Tim Walz literally appointed him. Your party is a gaggle of degenerates.”
And:
“So the gun pulled its own trigger? That is your stance? Retarded.”
Which led to the logical endpoint for many, as one X user cited the similarity of King’s statement to one of his horror stories.
“King wrote a book about a car, Christine, thinking and acting on it's own, so why is it so hard to understand he believes guns can do that, also?”
The witty retorts are valid, and one can tell that those posting them are not making light of the murders; they simply are calling Mr. King to task for his ignorance and embrace of the unreal.
As with most gun-grabbers, King’s implication is that government bans on firearms and infringements on the natural right to keep and bear arms would make the world safer. Such statist acts would save lives and curb violent crime.
The statistics showing that greater gun ownership correlates to lower violent crime are clear. John Lott spelled out in “More Guns, Less Crime” that comparisons of neighboring counties with similar populations saw violent crime decrease in the counties that allowed concealed carry, while the others rose.
I’ve written for MRCTV about the rise in violent crime (including gun-related crime) in Australia and England following their gun grabs in the 1990s, while gun ownership skyrocketed in the US and violent crime plummeted.
I’ve written for MRCTV about the similar rise in violent crime in Ireland and in Canada, after those gun-grabbers pointed government guns at non-violent people who wanted to defend themselves with firearms in the 1990s and the 1960s.
So, perhaps Mr. King would like to do some reading. Not of fiction, but of facts.
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