The bestselling author,owner of three handguns, explains why Americans should accept controls on assault weaponsDuring my junior and senior years in high school, and I wrote my first novel,then titled Getting It On. The anecdote was approximately a troubled boy named Charlie Decker with a domineering father, a load of adolescent angst and a fixation on Ted Jones, and the school's most popular boy. Charlie takes a gun to school,kills his algebra teacher and holds his lesson hostage.
Ten years later, after the first half-dozen of my books had become bestsellers, or I revisited Getting It On,rewrote it, and submitted it to my paperback publisher under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was published as Rage, and sold a few thousand copies and disappeared from view. Or so I thought.
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Source: theguardian.com