Whatâs
Wrong Today:
On April 27, the Virginia
Pilot Online had this thread that begins as a laugh out loud exchange between
commenters about regulating the use of pressure cookers. Then, like everything
on the web, it turns.
Another blogger
called this exchange, ‘weapons grade stupid”:
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27 APRIL 2013 | 5:00 AM
Putting a lid on it
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
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BED, BATH AND BEYOND….
Submitted by James King, Chesapeake, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at 8:18
am.
…will be lobbying congress about this.
I know this is no joking matter but you never know what the government is going to do next.
PRESSURE COOKERS
Submitted by ML Manning, Virginia Beach, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
8:49 am.
Pressure cookers should also be
registered with both state and federal government. On the other hand, we might should just make
them illegal for everyone except law enforcement and the military.
RIGHT ON!
Submitted by John T Roberts, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
8:41 pm.
Right on, Brother! And any tin-foil
hatted, black helicopter-fearing racist homophobe who thinks reasonable steps to register dangerous
pressure cookers that kill women and children is a plot to deny well-cooked vegetables to
law-abiding citizens is just a freak! We don’t need no stinking pressure cookers! There will still be
well-cooked vegetables! Tyranny ain’t happenin’, Dude!
NOT ENOUGH
Submitted by William Tabor, Chesapeake, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
9:02 am.
Its not enough to require background
checks at household goods retailers, we need to close the flea market loophole as well.
AND…
Submitted by Ryan P Burton, Virginia Beach, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013
at 11:20 am.
The organic farmers market’s… Garage
sale loopholes… and if that does not slow down these thugs, next will be the rationing of
sugar when you borrow it from thy neighbor! We must stop this incessant carnage and
the only way to control it is by central planning!
EXACTLY!
Submitted by John T Roberts, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
8:26 pm.
If ONLY ONE CHILD can be saved from
fleas…
A THOUGHT
Submitted by Frank Papcin, Va.bch., VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at 9:59
am.
–most of you think these posts are
ridiculous,–but the sad truth of the matter is that these posts are no more ridiculous then the words
coming out of you great leader in WASHINGTON.
–what good are new laws if you don’t
enforce the laws we already have.
–why don’t you punish the people that
use guns in crimes the way they should?
–why don’t you help the sick people the
way they need the help?
–why don’t you stop demonizing all the
people that don’t agree with you?
–why don’t a lot of thing that will
never happen. why don’t you stop teaching you children to hate in schools?–why not just teach your
children the basics that they need instead of teaching them what YOU think they should learn about
the many other things YOU think they should know,–in spite of their parents.
–social engineering
is not for the teachers in schools.–It belongs to the parents and
churches,–camps,–social
programs outside of the schools.
–no student should be taught that
blowing up women and children can be justified for any reason.–not in this country.–but it is.
–no professors should be demonizing any
political party in this country,–but it is.–even the president is doing that.–what do you
expect the children to do when it’s in their faces every day?–every where?–don’t they learn by
looking and seeing and hearing?–then doing.
–hatred is taught!–but you don’t want
to hear that–do you?
Submitted by Timothy P Delaney, Virginia Beach, VA on Sat,
04/27/2013 at 7:07 pm.
-no student should be taught that blowing
up women and children can be justified for any reason.–not in this country.–but it
is.” Where exactly is this being taught in our
country? I mean, a discussion of World War II in aclassroom might raise the history of the
bombing of cities like London, Tokyo, Dresden and of course Hiroshima and Nagasaki… is that
what you are getting at? Because I cannot imagine a discussion in a history class regarding
WWII that would not mention at least a couple of those instances….
NOT WW II
Submitted by John T Roberts, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
8:24 pm.
Mr. Papcin may have in mind a story that’s
been on Fox News the last few days. The story involves a Tennessee high school textbook
which critics say legitimizes acts of terrorism. I think the critics have a point. You can
read about the controversy here:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/27/textbook-case-bias-parents-say-school-reader-isbiased-vs-israel/
I READ YOUR LINK
Submitted by Timothy P Delaney, Virginia Beach, VA on Sat,
04/27/2013 at 8:53 pm.
I do not believe that that one sentence
within the context of the paragraph could possibly be extrapolated to mean that teachers are
justifying blowing up innocents. First, I do not believe that a fair reading of the piece would
lead one to the conclusion that anyone is justifying the murder of innocents. Second, I do not
believe that an elective class in one particular district can be used to create an impression that
there is some widespread problem of teachers justifying the murder of innocents.
I understand that it would be fodder for
those who are the core Fox audience, but really, could not the same argument be made for the
bombing of cities and civilians in WWII?
JOHN
Submitted by Timothy P Delaney, Virginia Beach, VA on Sat,
04/27/2013 at 10:20 pm.
I purposely noted the bombing of London
in WWII, because both sides engaged in what can only be described as terror bombing.
Sure, there were notional military /industrial targets around, but lets not try to obscure what
it was – an attempt to terrorize and beat down the population’s will. And both sides would
find a way to justify….As for the sentence in question, I
thought that while it was probably meant to spur thought/conversation, I myself could not begin
to equate the two. In war, innocents sometimes get killed and it is an accident -in terrorism,
innocents get killed and it is the objective. Obviously, one is far worse.
NOTHING FITS
Submitted by Bruce D Price, Va. Beach, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
2:13 pm.
23 quarts? Would something that big fit
in a backpack? I’ve read that it would not. There would be a big bulge and everyone would think,
uh-oh, a bomb! I’m just been looking at videos which
claim to show that the Boston Marathon event was a fake.
Perhaps the most profound commentary was
from a Nevada politician who read the journalistic Code of Ethics. That’s the one where
reporters swear to tell the truth and report the facts, in order to protect their communities from
tyranny, etc.
Another commentator made the point, as he
examined pictures of a victim without a leg who was not bleeding a drop, that he should
be able to call his local paper and say look at this picture, it proves fraud. But he knows
it’s useless because the local paper belongs to the White House. On a more optimistic note, another
commentator claims that the public is getting smarter, and the hoaxes will be harder to pull off.
I SEE
Submitted by Al Markowitz, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at 3:57
pm.
your foil hat is working. . .
YOUR SARCASM DETECTOR
Submitted by William Tabor, Chesapeake, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
8:08 pm.
needs realignment.
ONE HAS TO WONDER JUST HOW CLEVER THIS LETTER WRITER
Submitted by Lillian Jane Massey, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013
at 6:58 pm.
One has to wonder just how clever this
letter writer would be, as well as most the posters here, had they lost a loved one, lost a leg, a
foot an arm, a child, a mother or father in that Boston bombing. If you were friends, relatives,
even just acquaintances of any of those people personally assaulted by the bombs, would
you all really be this insensitive?
I understand tongue-in-cheek,
facetiousness and snarkiness, but considering the people who lost an awful lot at that site two
Mondays ago, I personally feel the only thing I really don’t understand is poor taste. Being so glib about such a sad, painful,
hurtful event for so many Bostonians personally, not to mention our entire country, the
letter-writer and most of you who responded to that letter give poor taste a new, much more pathetic
meaning.
DOES IT HAVE TO BE…
Submitted by John T Roberts, Norfolk, VA on Sat, 04/27/2013 at
9:02 pm.
Does it have to be “that Boston
bombing”?
I would imagine the letter writer, and
most of the commenters here, have “lost a loved one, lost a leg, a foot an arm, a child, a mother
or father” in some manner that is analogous to the Boston tragedy.
In my own case, I once knew someone who
was murdered, members of my family have died of horrific diseases, friends of family have
committed suicide, and someone I loved burned to death in an auto accident. Most people
can make similar claims.
So maybe it’s not so glib or in poor
taste to exploit the Boston bombing to make a point about gun control advocacy.
In any case, I’ve seen enough in life to
be truly opposed to gun control and the philosophies that support it.
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