An author I will no longer support
And a pity because he writes well. He also speaks his mind (totally justified) and speaks articulately but he is clueless on what he is talking about. Steven King -- from the UK
Guardian:
Stephen King risks wrath of NRA by releasing pro-gun control essay
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."
King finished the 25-page essay, Guns, last Friday and wanted it published as soon as possible, given the Obama administration's looming battle with the National Rifle Association and its allies. It was published on Friday on Amazon's online Kindle store, price 99 cents.
Hey Stephen -- fuck you right back. Six simple points:
#1) -- the National Rifle Association is a pro-firearm organization. They have an arm that promotes some great training programs. Lulu's son and I have taken several of their classes at a local range. It is also has a lobbying arm. I support this too because despite Barry's campaign promise to limit lobbying in D.C., this has not been done so every side needs paid people in the other Washington. I subscribe to it gladly as it has given me some excellent results and it represents my voice when apparently, my own vote does not carry to my representatives in D.C.
#2) -- there are an estimated 100 million firearms in the United States. Some people collect firearms but with about 300 million US citizens, it should be safe to say that at least one out of twenty people have a firearm. One out of ten households? Probably too...
#3) -- some of the ideas being bandied about are registration, confiscation, limited ordnance (magazine capacity, online ammo purchases), special geekery that 'stamp' a round with an indicia traceable to the owner (obliterated in five minutes with a small file or Dremell tool). additional taxes on the purchase of firearms, mandatory 'registration' at the time of purchase (and just what is an FBI Form 4473 if not a background check?) etc...
#4) -- I am pulling a wild-assed guess out of my hat but say that the tax burden of implementing this "gun grabbing" would cost each gun owner $100/year/per gun. Barry is probably looking at building another Federal Agency to handle this with the accompanying bureaucratic overhead and government waste. Let's just say $100/year/per gun from each and every one of us -- gun owner or not. After all, it is for our children's safetey...
#5) -- the percentage of sick fucks who get their jollies off by murdering innocent people with firearms is probably 0.01% of legitimate gun owners. This would include gang violence (Chicago with 530 gun deaths in 2012) as well as the people like A*am L*nza and the other copycat morons. (My facebook page is going to be so totally freaking aweeeessomeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111eleventy1111)
#6) -- so... Instead of pissing our tax dollars away on this, how about we spend that ($100*$100,000,000 = $100,000,000,000) One (
finger to cheek) Billion dollars instituting programs to assess and weed out the profoundly mentally ill people from our society like we used to do before we got 'acceptance' and 'tolerance' for those poor souls who were 'different' from us. We used to do this back before the 1970's but the money ran out for custodial care when L(ying) B(astard) Johnson took the money (and NASA's money) to fund his "Great Society" and the majority of these dear people were simply released with no place to go but the streets.
Yes it is custodial care and constant medication and observation but if a person's brain chemistry simply does not work quite rite, that actually is the most compassionate solution. They might not get "their rights" but on the other hand, as demonstrated so well by the L*nza child, they are not engaged human beings after all.
And actually, I will totally agree with Stephen on this one:
"Here's how it shakes out," the essay begins, before describing 22 ritual steps in which the US experiences a school massacre. Excoriating the media and television voyeurism, he writes: "Sixteenth, what cable news does best now begins, and will continue for the next seventy-two hours: the slow and luxurious licking of tears from the faces of the bereaved."
This is why that L*nza -- the next 'wanna be me!!!!' sick-fuck will not find support from me by posting his actual name. The media needs to bury acts like this -- a brief mention but no frisson of glory to the perp. They are dead to the world and do not need to be a role model.
Posted by DaveH at January 26, 2013 8:02 PM