Popular authors speak on gun control in America

Author of Game of Thrones, George RR Martin has released a video of him interviewing Stephen King, where they spoke about Gun control in America.

At the public event in Albuquerque last week, King suggested that if the man who killed 49 people in the Orlando terror attack “had gone in there with a knife, he would have been overpowered before he’d stabbed more than four people”.

“As long as anybody who’s got only two wheels on the road can walk into a store and buy a … killing machine like an AR-15 or something, this is just going to go on. It’s really up to us,” said King.

The novelist has long been an advocate of gun control for a very long time, he called for a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons in 2013 following the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary school.

“Autos and semi-autos are weapons of mass destruction. When lunatics want to make war on the unarmed and unprepared, these are the weapons they use,” King wrote at the time.

And when the discussion veered to writing books, Stephen King expressed sympathy for Martin over the pressure that fans are putting him under to finish his series. “People yell at you and say: ‘We want the next book right away.’ They’re like babies,” he said.

Watch the interview above.

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