 Tennessee lawmaker says ‘lighten up’ after posting pressure cooker bomb joke 
 
 By David Edwards 
 
 Tuesday, April 23, 2013 15:04 EDT 
 
 A Tennessee lawmaker who posted a joke about the pressure cooker bombs used to murder three people last week in Boston now says that people need to “lighten up.” 
 
 In a post to his personal blog on Monday, state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) displayed a photo of an “Assault Pressure Cooker” with the title “Here comes Feinstein again.” 
 
 The photo described the pressure cooker as having a “folding stock,” being the “evil” color black and having a “large-capacity, can cook for hours without reloading.” 
 
 The joke is a reference to Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA) effort to ban military-style assault weapons, which gun proponents argue uses cosmetic features to decide which rifles will be outlawed. When asked if he thought the timing (one week after 3 people died in the Boston Marathon bombings) was insensitive Campfield responded by saying "People need to lighten up." “I say it’s insensitive that people go after guns and Second Amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting.” 
 
 “I Just [sic] got a call from the media saying they had gotten a few calls (about a blog post I did) saying it was inappropriate after the Boston bombing,” the state senator wrote in a follow-up post.
– Tennessee lawmaker Stacey Campfield is no stranger to controversy—you may recall his "don't say gay" bill, among other things—and now he's got a little bit more. On his blog, Campfield thought it would be a hoot to make a joke about the Boston bombers' weapon of choice, a pressure cooker. He posted a photo of "an assault pressure cooker" with the line, "Here comes Feinstein again," a reference to the senator's efforts on gun control. Asked about it by WVLT, Campfield said people need to "lighten up." “I say it’s insensitive that people go after guns and Second Amendment rights after the Sandy Hook shooting," he added. The state senator also made headlines earlier this month when he scrapped a measure to link welfare benefits to students' performance at school, notes Raw Story. He dropped the bill after being confronted in front of cameras by an 8-year-old girl, who he dismissed as a "prop". (The Tennessean had coverage on that.)