In an article on the ominous writings of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho for "Entertainment Weekly", King said: "Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing—including a short story called 'Cain Rose Up' and the novel "Rage"—would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them..." After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, he elaborated in a non-fiction essay, titled "Guns" (2013), on why he let "Rage" go out of print.