Licensing your pressure cooker

How are we, as a nation, going to overreact this week?

Knee-jerk solutions seem to be the only answers the politics of the day can offer.

I hear that we will soon have to register our pressure cookers because they can be used to make Boston Baked Bombs.

Too soon?

Really, I do have enormous sympathy for those affected by the senseless acts that seem to be happening across America and the globe with increasing frequency.

The problem I see is that the solutions to these problems are targeted solely on limiting the availability of inanimate objects.

These objects are not, in themselves, to blame f...