Stephen King: ‘Real Culprit’ in Minnesota Political Shootings Was ‘The Gun’

Breitbart ^ | 06/20/2025 | AWR Hawkins

[ChicagoConservative27]

The Shining and It author Stephen King reacted to last weekend’s targeted shootings in Minnesota via an X post where he claimed the “real culprit” in the attacks was “the gun.”

Breitbart News reported that Vance Boelter allegedly killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband in their home after shooting and severely wounding state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife in theirs.

Boelter allegedly dressed like a police officer and parked a car that resembled a police vehicle in the driveway of both homes as he carried out his attacks.

King used an X post to say: “Vance Boelter is clearly as nutty as a fruitcake. The real culprit is the gun he used. They’re everywhere, and it’s years too late to put that genie back in the bottle.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

What a retarded mental midget

[SaxxonWoods]

Guns have brains and are self-activated, who knew?

[ssapro]

What a maroon!

[rottweiller_inc]

I think he’s secretly an evil clown that hides in sewers.

[IYAS9YAS]

Trucks/Maximum Overdrive were fiction, Stevie. Keep to things you know.

[stinkerpot65]

Sleazy old socialist jerk.

[TheThirdRuffian]

I guess it was the van’s fault that a repeat drunk driver nailed Stephen King and damn near killed him. He should go to the parole board and demand the drunk be released from prison.

[SkyDancer]

His cocaine must have gone off.

[Ann Archy]

Did he SUE the DRIVER of the car that hit him, or did he SUE the CAR??

[Mean Daddy]

Same party as Alec Baldwin

[bwest]

I think it was Cujo.

[SkyDancer]

My dad’s AR sits near the front door - hasn’t shot a UPS or FedEx driver yet. Dad thinks the AR is depressed.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"it’s years too late to put that genie back in the bottle"

Yeah, it's kinda hard to uninvent gunpowder, idiot. We're stuck with it, and as long as the bad guys have guns the good guys must have them too.

[rktman]

Seeing too many comments related to this assclown. Does he have a new book coming out? He really should stick to writing books. Outside of that he knows diddly.

[Mastador1]

I don’t know if he got worse after the brain injury or if he was always this retarded.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I am going to go with both

[EandH Dad]

We all know it wasn’t the gun. It was the bullets. Little chunks of lead flying around willy-nilly sooner of later something like this was bound to happen.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.” – Seneca, writing 2000 YEARS AGO.

[Fledermaus]

And Christine the car

[al_c]

The gun: