George RR Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire, has posted a video interviewing Stephen King, who is issuing an intense demand for greater gun control. At the public event that took place last week in Albuquerque, King suggested that if the man who killed 49 people in the Orlando bombing had gone there with a knife, the man could have been arrested before he stabbed more than four. people.
“While anyone with only two wheels on the road can walk into a store and buy a killing machine like an AR-15 or similar, this is only going to continue. Really It depends on us"
George RR Martin was interviewing Stephing King about his new novel "End of Watch", which concludes the story of the serial killer Brady Hartsfield. Describing Brady, who drives a Mercedes-Benz in a queue of people waiting for a job interview, King commented as follows:
“A lot of these guys are nobody who see their way of going as a type of stardom by creating an act of mass terror. And of course the sad thing about this is that We will remember them as murderers after their victims are forgotten, and that's one of the things that a self-perpetuating act entails "
Stephen King pointed to Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at Orlando's Pulse nightclub on June 12.
“I would say that someone like the man who shot all those people in Orlando could have sworn allegiance to Isis but before he was an abusive husband and someone with great anger. "
The novelist has been a great advocate for gun control for a long time. In 2013 wrote an essay called "Guns" in which he called for the prohibition of automatic and semi-automatic weapons following the shooting of 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In this essay, Stephen King wrote the following:
“Automatic and semi-automatic weapons are weapons of mass destruction. When madmen want to wage war on those who are unarmed and unprotected, these are the weapons they use."
Last year, after nine black parishioners were killed in Charleston, South Carolina, the author repeated the call he had made earlier, this time on twitter.
“As long as responsible gun owners support gun control laws, innocent blood will continue to flow. How many times do we have to watch this?"
George RR Martin and Stephen King went on to discuss the nature of evil in fiction. Martin commented that in JRR Tolkien's works, to which he is continually compared, "evil is externalized", but in Stephen King's writing, "the real villains are the people."
“In a way, outer evil is a more comforting concept. The idea that "what the devil made me do" is a responsible path, "commented Stephen King. "What a lot of horror literature does is allow us to deal with the outer sea that grabs our attention."
For his part, George RR Martin said that he had always been more attracted to gray characters.
“I think the battle between good and evil is a great subject for fiction but in my opinion the battle is fought within the human heart. We are all partially good and partially bad "
George RR Martin ended the interview on a note of light when asked by Stephen King: “How the hell can you write so many books so fast?"
George RR Martin is currently writing the sixth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which features an HBO series inspired by his novels that is ahead of his writing.
“I think,“ I've had a really good six months, I've written three chapters, ”and you've finished three books in that time. Haven't you had a day where you sit and it's like a disease? That you write a sentence and hate that sentence? And you look at your email and wonder if he's had talent before? "
Stephen King replied that he works three or four hours a day and aims to write six fairly neat pages.
"So if my book has, say, 360 pages, it's basically two months of work."
But he expressed sympathy for Martin over the pressure fans are continually putting on him to end his saga.
"People who scream and say 'we want the next book right away' are like babies."