Pressure cooker joke: State Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-TN) posted a photo of a pressure cooker on his blog, prompting criticism.
Pressure cookers were a key element in the two bombs that went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
The picture has labels and arrows mockingly describing parts of a pressure cooker, including one arrow toward the bottom that says “evil, black” and another that points to the lid that says “large-capacity, can cook for hours without reloading.”
The blog post, on Campfield’s blog “Camp4u,” is dubbed “Here comes Feinstein again, apparently pointing to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has been one of the leaders for the political battle for stricter gun control.
Campfield told ABC News that the picture is not a big deal.
“I was showing the hypocrisy of Diane Feinstein, the gun grabbers, of their inability to realize that it is a person that does activity, not an inanimate object, be it a gun or a pressure cooker,” he said.
Campfield posted a follow-up titled “Inappropriate? Me? Never!
“If my post was inappropriate talking about ‘crock pot control’ then where is the outrage from the left when they push for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting?” He wrote. “Im sorry if I exposed your double standard... Well, not really.”
People reading his post and commenting were not happy.
Said one: “What kind kind of insensitive imbecile thinks it’s okay to post a picture like this? Do you think it’s a joke? Three people dead, one an eight year old child and you think it’s something to laugh about? I really hope the people of this state start seeing who you really are and get your disrespectful sorry excuse for a human being out of the state senate!”
Others said they agreed with the premise of the joke.
“People need to lighten up,” Campfield told Knoxville-based broadcaster WVLT. “I say it’s insensitive that people go after guns and second amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting.”
