By Fred Weinberg

Here’s an idea.

How about an assault pressure cooker ban?

In view of last week’s events in Boston, it makes more sense than an assault rifle ban. (Keep in mind that Obamacare probably will not pay for the surgical removal of my tongue from my cheek.)

It’s now well known that a cheap pressure cooker (Wal Mart has them as low as $42.87 for a T-Fal model) can be turned into an IED, which can kill or maim a lot faster than a Bushmaster 223 with a 30 round magazine.  Ask the folks who were gathered near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week.

Where are the “if we can just save one life” folks on this one?

I’m pretty sure that the Second Amendment does not cover pressure cookers, so why not ban them in addition to ball bearings and printed circuit boards that can receive radio signals and switch something on?

A more reasonable question to ask, of course, would be if those folks in the Boston area, who were ordered back into their houses during the manhunt for the two Chechnyan punks who apparently set off the IEDs at the Boston Marathon, would have felt more comfortable with a handgun or an assault rifle to protect themselves and their families?

I know that if this had happened in Northern Nevada, there would have been a whole lot of weapons being loaded and cocked and kept handy until the manhunt was over.

At the risk of being accused of politicizing a tragedy, this is the exact reason we do not and should not ban guns in this country.  You have a guaranteed constitutional right to defend yourself from nutjobs like these clowns and, for that matter, anybody else who would do your family and yourself any harm.

Understand that you are not required to do so.  But you have the right to do so.  And, should you wish to be pro-active in a situation such as this, the nanny staters should not be standing in your way.

One such nanny stater is our own Harry Reid (D-Washington DC Ritz Carleton), who has now completed his transition from a one-time blue dog Democrat who understood exactly the nature of the state he represented to a Barney Frank limousine liberal who could care less about who actually sent him to Washington because he’s above all that.

In last week’s Senate votes on the President’s gun control bill, Reid actually voted FOR an assault weapons ban.

That’s right, Dirty Harry voted to stop me from owning my M1 Carbine, the assault rifle that won World War Two.  The rifle we made six and a half million of and sold surplus to citizens’ marksmanship groups in the 50s and 60s for around $21.

He lost by a good 20 votes because even in a Senate run by Harry Reid, there’s enough good sense to realize such a bill was going nowhere.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein poo

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