“But it seems to me to be a characteristic or a consequence of America’s terrifying gun culture,” mentioned the Booker-prize-winning writer, who survived an try on his life on the Chautauqua Establishment in New York in 2022.
“When you have a situation where there are more guns in private ownership than there are people in the country, I mean, guns are everywhere.
“When kids are introduced up being taught by their mother and father learn how to use weapons, and weapons are being left within the house in unlocked cupboards, it is a nation during which violent gun-related crime occurs virtually daily. And this is without doubt one of the most brutal examples of it.”
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Sir Salman being interviewed by Sky Information lead presenter Wilfred Frost
The Indian-British writer additionally addressed the tried assassination of US President Donald Trump, saying: “Well, I guess I’m happy that it failed. Beyond that, I don’t have a lot to say about it.”
Sir Salman was attacked by Hadi Matar, who stabbed him within the head, neck, torso and left hand, leaving him with harm to his liver and intestines in addition to blind in a single eye. Matar was jailed for 25 years in Might.
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He wrote concerning the assault and his restoration in his 2024 memoir Knife. His new ebook, Eleventh Hour, is a return to fiction.

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Sir Salman Rushdie says Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a ‘consequence’ of US gun tradition
Discussing the ebook and writing on the whole, he recommended that he would not suppose AI would have the ability to seize emotion, humour and creativity like people can.
“The couple of little experiments that I’ve carried out with AI suggest to me that at least this far, it doesn’t have a sense of humour. And it’s not original,” he mentioned.
“What it can do is to duplicate things that have been fed into it. But good art is original, and I don’t think that AI has an original bone in its body.”
