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Stephen King recently bloviated about the NRA and its propoer role post-shooting, but a little research reveals that King, in 1977, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, published "Rage," a book about a Maine high school senior who kills his algebra teacher and holds the class hostage. In subsequent years, numerous school murders occurred around the country with the assailants saying they had gotten the idea or from "Rage."
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Does anyone but the most delusional O'Reilly watchers use "bloviate?"
It's like waving a big red flag at the beginning of your thread that screams "Hey, look at me! I get the latest issue to be outraged about from Fox news."
Haha.... yeah, I wasn't aware of that either (him being left-wing) and I'm a HUGE fan. Granted, I don't know if he's right-wing either, but I would wager he lies somewhere in the middle. I guess they just call everyone a "leftie" who has opinions differing from their own!
Furthermore, I don't see how writing a fictional story has anything to do with his personal views. He also wrote about a killer car, so was he a hypocrite for pressing charges against that driver who hit & almost killed him?
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Originally Posted by detwahDJ
Since when is Stephen King some left wing guru? Is that what Fox is saying? Yet more desperation by the fading right.
Desperation, yes, and I'm not just talking about the book he wrote by that name (which is awesome, btw).
Does anyone but the most delusional O'Reilly watchers use "bloviate?"
It's like waving a big red flag at the beginning of your thread that screams "Hey, look at me! I get the latest issue to be outraged about from Fox news."
I've never even heard that word, and I have a degree in English... so yeah, probably just O'Reilly watchers.
Not to mention that Rage is no longer published as one of the Bachman books because Stephen King pulled it. Why? Due to the danger of some young idiots with parents too stupid to teach them how to problem-solve without killing people. Said parents also being stupid enough to fail to secure their firearms.
You should read Rage. It's a good story, and not the shoot 'em up that the OP apparently believes.
Haha.... yeah, I wasn't aware of that either (him being left-wing) and I'm a HUGE fan. Granted, I don't know if he's right-wing either, but I would wager he lies somewhere in the middle. I guess they just call everyone a "leftie" who has opinions differing from their own!
Furthermore, I don't see how writing a fictional story has anything to do with his personal views. He also wrote about a killer car, so was he a hypocrite for pressing charges against that driver who hit & almost killed him?
Desperation, yes, and I'm not just talking about the book he wrote by that name (which is awesome, btw).
So was The Regulators, which turned the characters around.
As a person that used an assault rifle in the service and witnessed the riots of the late 60's I can say that the culture of America has changed in some way. The guns are the same. The media is not the same. The children we are raising are not the same. Our children are being brain washed by the media and social groups and peer groups to follow very self destructive paths. That and a complete void in their lives of right or wrong.
Stephen King recently bloviated about the NRA and its propoer role post-shooting, but a little research reveals that King, in 1977, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, published "Rage," a book about a Maine high school senior who kills his algebra teacher and holds the class hostage. In subsequent years, numerous school murders occurred around the country with the assailants saying they had gotten the idea or from "Rage."
An opinion piece that has a rather slanted opinion.
What a surprise.
From the other side:
"In an angry essay released Friday, best-selling novelist Stephen King calls on gun owners — including himself — to support a ban on semiautomatic weapons and other gun-control measures in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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He criticizes the National Rifle Association, the media (for knee-jerk coverage of school shootings) and politicians (for inaction). "
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