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abigcoffeedragon's review against another edition
5.0
Great essay.
It is wonderful when someone of public image takes a step forward with thought provoking words such as these. Thank you mister King.
It is wonderful when someone of public image takes a step forward with thought provoking words such as these. Thank you mister King.
calbowen's review against another edition
5.0
Great essay.
It is wonderful when someone of public image takes a step forward with thought provoking words such as these. Thank you mister King.
It is wonderful when someone of public image takes a step forward with thought provoking words such as these. Thank you mister King.
bookph1le's review
5.0
This is such a well-done, well-thought-out piece. King's arguments are very reasoned, and he does a good job of expressing his ideas in a concise way that still packs a serious punch. I found myself nodding and "mm hmming" to a lot of what he wrote, and I read a significant chunk of the piece out loud to my husband. I especially liked his effort at debunking the idea that America is a violent culture and that Americans just can't get enough of violence. I also agree with him that the people who perpetrate these mass attacks gravitate toward violent media precisely because they're broken already, which is why it speaks to them, and not because the media inspires them to go out and commit homicidal acts. This piece promotes precisely the kind of dialog we need around the subject of gun violence in America.
sarahgudeman's review
3.0
Interesting essay but nothing really earth-moving here in terms of the debate. Really just one mans well researched, articulate opinion. I could see it provoking some discussion though if experiences in a group setting.
jcamilla's review
2.0
One section that resonated with me was when King stated that deciding to pull Rage, his earliest novel under his pen name, off the shelves because many young shooters read the book and apparently got sudden rushes to act on their disturbed agenda, was not because the First Amendment protected his right to write whatever he wanted and publish whatever he wanted. Rather, he said "the law couldn't demand [pulling the book from the shelves]." King did what he did because he felt it was the responsible and sensible thing to do. He then compared the First Amendment to the Second Amendment, saying that "[Pro-gun advocates] need to say, 'We support these measures not because the law demands we support them, but because it's the sensible thing.'" Really liked the quote because when people are acting less on sensibility and more on politics, life gets worse for the average citizen. As a society, we need to wake up to new ways to improve our society, follow the law, but with a vision that fits into our world today.
Sorry for the subpar review... Writing this at 1am while sick and trying to catch up on my stats class work that I was trying to self study because of missing a class AND thinking of needing to wake up 5 hours later for class tomorrow at 7:30am... My brain is slightly fried. I should sleep.
Sorry for the subpar review... Writing this at 1am while sick and trying to catch up on my stats class work that I was trying to self study because of missing a class AND thinking of needing to wake up 5 hours later for class tomorrow at 7:30am... My brain is slightly fried. I should sleep.
seclement's review
5.0
An eminently reasonable essay with a sensible plan that, in any other country, would be seen as obvious and logical. Of course even the simplest of his points have not been carried out, even though, in the time since this was written, there were many other shootings post-Sandy Hook. If children dying is not enough to get better gun regulation in America, then an essay by a popular author, no matter how well loved, will not get better gun regulation.