http://twitchy.com/samj/2025/08/28/everyone-even-community-notes-piles-on-stephen-king-trans-gun-post-n2418038
Matt Walsh pulled zero punches, going off about the dangers of the trans community and how we are enabling mental illnesses and not actually doing anything to help them. Walsh is not known for addressing any topic with kid gloves, and this was no exception:
Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) ~ Every trans person is dangerously delusional. They are all mentally sick and doctors should be legally barred from affirming their mental illness in any way. Adult or child. Everyone knows it. Now innocent children are dying because so many people were too cowardly to speak up.
Which means Stephen King had to open his big old yap and pull out the same tired, old gun-control talking points.
'Cuz Stephen King is nothing but a one-trick pony ...
Stephen King (@StephenKing) ~ Trans is not the problem. He had a gun. That’s the problem.
Blah blah blah blah.
You'd think if he were going to insert himself into the argument, he'd at least have something worthwhile to say, but ... no.
The gun wouldn't have done anything without the monster holding it, Stephen.
And all of X (including Community Notes) told him so:
Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} “I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.... I kill with my heart.” ~ Stephen King
PhotographicFloridian (@JackLinFLL) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} Bro!
Snarknado ⚓️ (@ZannSuz) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} No, Stevie. It’s a trans with guns problem. Fully 93% of the guns used in the commission of crimes were obtained illegally. You cannot punish law abiding gun owners for the actions of mentally ill people & criminals.
Math is so hateful, y'all.
Prisha Mosley (@detransaqua) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} Millions of Americans have guns and do not do this. It’s the fact that he was in a death cult.
OH ... he was a mooslim, too?!
Coco (@CoClarified) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} Mentally ill people with access to guns are the problem.
Jason “Storm Chaser” Nelson (@RealJasonNelson) ~ {Replying to @StephenKing} Mental illness is the problem, not the inanimate object.
And trans is the problem.
Sorry, not sorry.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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