#FAIL

Obviously if there were pressure cooker bans this bombing wouldn't have happened or wouldn't have been as easy to perpetuate. Perhaps we should have background checks on pressure cooker purchases so that those with criminal backgrounds won't have access to pressure cookers that are used in these types of bombings.
It's clear, it's time, it's common sense. We need to ban these dangerous devices.
I mean, do you need a pressure cooker? Aren't there other ways of cooking things like pot roast? You don't NEED a pressure cooker to make these things. You could use other devices.
Its' time people. ban these devices. No one NEEDS one, they're dangerous, and they're unnecessary.

I hear what you are saying, but the pressure cooker didn't blow up, gunpowder did.

Your hands and feet are mangoes.

Ball Bearings, too.

And what exploded in the firearms used in the Colorado and Sandy Hook shootings?
The same gunpowder.
So keep guns, keep pressure cookers, ban gunpowder?

You have the wrong guy. I'm not in the ban guns crowd.

Your hands and feet are mangoes.

fail? Why? What's the difference between this pressure cooker and the firearms used in other crimes?

And yet the odds are better the government will do more to protect us from pressure cookers than guns.

That's about as far as I'm willing to go. Not interested in having silly debates.

This pressure cooker did a lot more damage than a gunman would have been able to do.
There's so many cops there that someone would have taken a gunman out quick.

you're gonna be a genius anyway...


I'm not in the ban guns crowd myself.

I just think that if the solution to shootings is to ban guns, then obviously the solution to these bombings is to ban pressure cookers.

That's not a given, sorry.

No. Not a given for sure. But do you think a jerk with a couple handguns could hurt as many people as a guy with a couple pressure cookers and some shit he bought at Walmart?
I think the walmart shopper could be a lot more dangerous than the gunman, under certain circumstances.

When 30k people die and 70k people are injured by pressure cookers a year, it will be a good time to ask.

Wait...
whatever happened to the "If we can save one life" crowd?

And now that the cat is out of the bag on how easy it is to inflict mass casualties with pressure cookers perhaps those statistics will shift.

Should guns be banned, the dedicated will find another way to hurt people. 2L bottles and aluminum foil and draino?

There is no cat being let out of the bag. Al Qaeda has had the pressure cooker bomb recipe up for 15 years per experts on Hannity.

Wait...
whatever happened to the "If we can save one life" crowd?

And now that the cat is out of the bag on how easy it is to inflict mass casualties with pressure cookers perhaps those statistics will shift.

Should guns be banned, the dedicated will find another way to hurt people. 2L bottles and aluminum foil and draino?

Or it will get out of the way and allow us to protect ourselves.

I support second amendment rights but this "If we ban guns we have to ban every physical thing that's ever been near a crime" is pretty silly.

We don't need to ban guns but that kind of comparison isn't helping


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