I like zombie fiction - "Cell" fits that category. A little ways into the novel, the subjects of interest are proposing venturing to the "Gun Nut" neighbor's house to try to acquire some weapons. King does his best to layer the "Gun Nut" neighbors with plenty of stereotypes regarding "Gun Nuts"... Here's a few of the quotes/excerpts from around page 149 of the paperback:
They arrive on scene to find that the wife has been attacked by the zombie daughter and killed with a rolling pin in self defense. The wife then shoots herself in the head with a pistol kept in the kitchen "where it had been waiting who knew how long for a burglar or rapist to appear"...
"From a gadget-boy like Arnie Nickerson he would have expected an automatic - maybe even one with a laser sight - but this was a plain old Colt .45 revolver."
"...no nonsense about making sure it was loaded if the gun was needed... No, with this old whore you just had to swing the barrel out... As he'd expected, only one of the six chambers was empty. He shook out one of the other loads, knowing just what he would find. Beth Nickerson's .45 was loaded with highly illegal cop-killer bullets. Fraggers. No wonder the top of her head was gone. The wonder was that she had any left at all."
"He safetied the revolver and stuck it in his belt."
"Here was something he would have to remember: give a nice little gay guy from Malden a roomful of guns to play with, he starts to say yo just like Sylvester Stallone."
They go on to find a weapons cache in the basement including a Kalashnikov with a wire stock, calling it a "machine gun" and talking about how many rounds per second it will fire. "Is something like that legal in Massachusetts?" "It is now, Alice."
You can read the book if you want and make up your own mind. My gripe is that King on one hand is giving the impression of how bad guns are and how much damage they do to people, how everyone with an NRA sticker on their "OPEC friendly SUV" is a "gun nut" with "cop killer" bullets and illegal machine guns and revolvers stashed all over the house, but at the same time these poor survivors are greatly coveting the guys weapons to protect themselves...
And since when did anyone make "cop killer" loads for the .45 COLT??? What kind of body armor is that expected to defeat except maybe clothing??? Last I checked most any bullet was capable of killing a police officer or anybody else. It's like saying that an AMC Pacer is a race car - technically you could race in just about any car but it might not be all that effective for the task.
I appreciate King's fiction but I felt like this was an ill-informed smear of legitimate gun owners. I guess that mini van accident may have caused permanent brain damage.
They arrive on scene to find that the wife has been attacked by the zombie daughter and killed with a rolling pin in self defense. The wife then shoots herself in the head with a pistol kept in the kitchen "where it had been waiting who knew how long for a burglar or rapist to appear"...
"From a gadget-boy like Arnie Nickerson he would have expected an automatic - maybe even one with a laser sight - but this was a plain old Colt .45 revolver."
"...no nonsense about making sure it was loaded if the gun was needed... No, with this old whore you just had to swing the barrel out... As he'd expected, only one of the six chambers was empty. He shook out one of the other loads, knowing just what he would find. Beth Nickerson's .45 was loaded with highly illegal cop-killer bullets. Fraggers. No wonder the top of her head was gone. The wonder was that she had any left at all."
"He safetied the revolver and stuck it in his belt."
"Here was something he would have to remember: give a nice little gay guy from Malden a roomful of guns to play with, he starts to say yo just like Sylvester Stallone."
They go on to find a weapons cache in the basement including a Kalashnikov with a wire stock, calling it a "machine gun" and talking about how many rounds per second it will fire. "Is something like that legal in Massachusetts?" "It is now, Alice."
You can read the book if you want and make up your own mind. My gripe is that King on one hand is giving the impression of how bad guns are and how much damage they do to people, how everyone with an NRA sticker on their "OPEC friendly SUV" is a "gun nut" with "cop killer" bullets and illegal machine guns and revolvers stashed all over the house, but at the same time these poor survivors are greatly coveting the guys weapons to protect themselves...
And since when did anyone make "cop killer" loads for the .45 COLT??? What kind of body armor is that expected to defeat except maybe clothing??? Last I checked most any bullet was capable of killing a police officer or anybody else. It's like saying that an AMC Pacer is a race car - technically you could race in just about any car but it might not be all that effective for the task.
I appreciate King's fiction but I felt like this was an ill-informed smear of legitimate gun owners. I guess that mini van accident may have caused permanent brain damage.
