(Apologies and full credit to Weapons Grade Stupid)
Look at the damage pressure cookers can do in the wrong hands.The Boston Marathon tragedy and use of pressure cookers by terrorists for their explosive devices proves that pressure cookers should be controlled.
Even if they’re only used in the kitchen, pressure cookers can be hazardous. We should limit the public’s ability to obtain or own a pressure cooker with a capacity of more than six quarts, and we should approve such a purchase only after the buyer undergoes a complete background check.
Who has a need or right to own a 23-quart-capacity pressure cooker? And, of course, the individual making and exploding the bomb and enhancing its destructive force with a pressure cooker is not responsible for what happens with it; it’s the fault of the evil manufacturers and of the stores that sell the pressure cookers.
Richard King
Virginia Beach
You had to know it was just a matter of time before someone demanded that the sale of pressure cookers be controlled. Yep, that’s right; when pressure cookers are outlawed, only outlaws (and Grandma) will have pressure cookers.
I suppose it makes sense in a perverse sort of way; given some of the silliness TSA has seen fit to foist upon air travelers, banning pressure cookers seems kinda consistent, no? Man, I can hardly wait until some enterprising terrorist discovers how to turn a toothbrush into a bomb….
It’s interesting that an incident like the Boston Marathon bombing, tragic as it is, also manages to bring out the very worst in those predisposed to avoid anything resembling critical thinking. Two amateur terrorists use pressure cookers to construct a couple bombs- ergo, we must ban all pressure cookers. Problem solved, eh?
Never mind the reality that if someone wants to make a bomb, there are a million and one ways of doing so. All banning 23-quart pressure cookers will do is make it more difficult for those who actually use them for…oh, I don’t know…cooking?
Then again, I suppose anything more intellectually challenging than overheated emotional reactions can pose a real challenge for people like this….
