On January 25 , 2013 , King published an essay titled " Guns " via Amazon.com 's Kindle single feature , which discusses the gun debate in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting . King called for gun owners to support a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons , writing , " 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 . " The essay became the fifth-bestselling non-fiction title for the Kindle
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Stephen King