Stephen King rips NRA, Pepé Le Pew, Wayne LaPierre

In a 99-cent Kindle "Single" ebook, Guns, horror novelist Stephen King argues for a ban on assault rifle sales to civilians by telling the NRA to do what he did with an incendiary book:

I didn’t pull Rage from publication because the law demanded it; I was protected under the First Amendment and the law couldn’t demand it. I pulled it because in my judgement it might be hurting people, and that made it the responsible thing to do. Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces in this country decide to do a similar turnaround. They must accept responsibility, recognizing that responsilibity is not the same as culpability. They need to say, “we support these measures not because the law demands we support them, but because it’s the sensible thing."

Earlier in the tract, King let the NRA prez and board have it:

...One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these [violent] scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander’s last meal.