If celebrities have taught us anything over the years, they’ve taught us that fame doesn’t make you not an idiot.
In the case of Stephen King, this is actually kind of surprising. No, I don’t know anything about him personally but I’ve read a lot of his books, say roughly 1% of his total output, so dozens. His fiction doesn’t come across as having been written by a stupid man. Ignorant about firearms, yes. On the relatively rare occasions when firearms appear in his books he almost invariably gets technical details wrong so I know he’s not interested in guns. But I can at least theoretically imagine someone who’s not interested in guns and still not-stupid.
Alas, Mr. King has chosen to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Multiple gunshot wounds last night at Red Rocks. We regulator booze and tobacco; it's time to regulate firearms.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) June 20, 2014
Over at JPFO, Nicki Kenyon explains that if booze and cigarettes were regulated like guns already are, it would not be a good thing for people who like booze and cigarettes.
…in order to ensure that only people of legal age purchase these dangerous products, we will make it a federal crime to lie on an application to purchase cigarettes and alcohol punishable by up to five years in prison and a hefty fine.
Application?
Why yes!
We need to ensure that only responsible drinkers and smokers have access to alcohol and tobacco! So you will have to fill out a federal form confirming that you are a U.S. citizen, who has never been convicted of a felony, never been incarcerated, and never been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. And you will fill out this form every time you want to purchase an alcoholic drink or a pack of smokes.
As anybody who’s ever bought a gun from an FFL knows, the list of new restrictions as we bring B&C regulations into parity with the infringements on that which shall not be infringed can grow quite long. And it does. RTWT.
Someone needs to remind that asshat that he, by his own admission, spent over a million bucks on cocaine. One wonders, in his righteous indignation, how many of the little people in somebackasswards shitwater jungle or worse than a prison South American barrios his million helped to crush under the gears of the war on drugs. That money didn’t all go to Pablo’s Land Rovers and mansions. It went to the murderers who did that fuckers dirty work.
King says gun owners(well, not him, he needs his guns because he is rich and famous, and he does have a few guns) as a whole and those of us with those evil black rifles in particular all have the blood of innocents upon our filthy hands. Yet he seems disinterested in addressing the fact that his lack of self control may have financed the sex slavery of children.
Might have killed a journalist who was exposing narco dollar corrupt judges.
May have killed an old man who would rather grow coffee than cocoa.
Not that a smarmy narcissist like him will ever concede any of that.
Thine glass house is mighty shiny to be hurling stones from, Steve.
King is an unrepentant Progressive, he lives near me in Maine and I have run into him on occasion in the local store. He is as evil as the evil he writes about in his books.
So he really lives up to that whole “write what you know” thing then?:-)