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I think these guys are liberals. Even they admit that swimming pools are more dangerous for kids than guns. I was about to suggest showing this to a liberal, but I doubt they'll believe it. 
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Both are bad parenting, but one has a potential to kill everyone else in the pool.
The other one, the more people that are around, the more chances the kid will be saved. -
Actually, the more people around the greater the chance the child will down due to the parents "social distraction"Comment
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Not trying to prove a point, just a story.
My Dad jumped in the pool to save my sister 40 years ago. Before the $1k phones, FOBs and pagers. Today he might have hesitated a half second... LOLComment
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I've been making this argument for years. But it doesnt matter what facts you bring. Liberals adhere to the script given to them by their masters. And their masters simply want us disarmed.
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can't weaponize a swimming pool (unless you're trying to drown someone in it).
In both cases, knowledge, situational awareness, and a good guy with some skills are the key to your salvation.
My near drowning story: was at a pool after-party for my cousin's wedding. Some elementary school age or younger kid was playing around on the steps in the shallow end, surrounded by adults not paying attention. His buoyancy lifts him off the steps and carries him away into water too deep for him to stand, and you can see in his face the panic/fear set it. I caught it from the opposite end of the pool and called for help. Damn adults can't be trusted :PComment
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^^^The above is just an opinion.
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"...which from their verbosity, their endless tautologies, their involutions of case within case, and parenthesis within parenthesis, and their multiplied efforts at certainty by saids and aforesaids, by ors and by ands, to make them more plain, do really render them more perplexed and incomprehensible, not only to common readers, but to lawyers themselves. " - Thomas JeffersonComment
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They should have gave some numbers so its kinda a sucky video. Whats sad that even some here when you bring up comparisons of things that have a higher risk of death compared to guns they think it apples/oranges. It doesn't matter if something is done intentionally or accidentally, a death is still a death.^^^The above is just an opinion.
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"...which from their verbosity, their endless tautologies, their involutions of case within case, and parenthesis within parenthesis, and their multiplied efforts at certainty by saids and aforesaids, by ors and by ands, to make them more plain, do really render them more perplexed and incomprehensible, not only to common readers, but to lawyers themselves. " - Thomas JeffersonComment
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The data is easily attainable. Back in 2001 (using 1997 numbers) had an excerpt like this:
To be a devil's advocate: I don't think it is necessarily fair to compare "total residential pools" to "total civilian firearms owned." More like "total households with firearms" vs. the total *number* of firearms.In 1997 alone (the last year for which data are available), 742 children under the age of 10 drowned in the United States last year alone. Approximately 550 of those drownings -- about 75 percent of the total -- occurred in residential swimming pools. According to the most recent statistics, there are about six million residential pools, meaning that one young child drowns annually for every 11,000 pools.
About 175 children under the age of 10 died in 1998 as a result of guns. About two-thirds of those deaths were homicides. There are an estimated 200 million guns in the United States. Doing the math, there is roughly one child killed by guns for every one million guns.
Thus, on average, if you both own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
In any case, the numbers are clear and not known by many people. Just like the number of deaths due to "assault weapons" lagging behind falling off ladders and "hands and feet."Comment
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If we compare gun deaths per household with guns, instead of number of firearms, it's 5 deaths per million. Still pales in comparison to 1 drowning per 11,000 pools.
Number of households in 1998: 102.53 million
% of households with guns in 1998: 34.8%
35.68 million households with guns.
175 gun deaths/35.68 million = 5 deaths per million householdsComment
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