Ricky Ricardo would loose his mind trying to esplain this to his red haired queen as she only want to protect "little Ricky"
Here are some real numbers of accidental child deaths per year:
Cause ......................Number (Ages 0-14) .............Number (Ages 0-4)
Motor vehicle .........................2,591..........................................819 Drowning .................................943............................................568
Fires and flames .....................593............................................327
Mechanical suffocation ..........601.............................................508
Ingestion of food, object.........169 ............................................169 Firearms ..................................86...............................................19
Source: Figures are for 2000. National Safety Council, Injury Facts: 2003 Edition, at 10-11, 129.
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GUNS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! There are much worse things to de doing with your children. Hell even the Clampet's undestand this
(This is SARCASM I do NOT believe in the government banning of any activity that does not directly harm or infringe another human being E.g. Murder)
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Wait, so you arent saying that swimming pools (despite a lower rate of ownership than firearms, if im not mistaken) kill more children every year than evil guns, are you?
wait, by over 1090%?
OMFGWTFBBQ. Why arent we cracking down on the availability of such death machines as manufactured by companies as Shasta pools? There are very few sporting purposes for home swimming pools, as olympic swimmers only train in traditional style regulation pools, which for the safety of our children, can be located in other countries for training. These type of "custom" or "assault" pools that are cropping up all over the country, even in your own neighbors backyard, serve no such sporting purpose, and should be banned.
in addition, i saw the following sugestions presented online:
To prevent the number two cause of injury death to children, we should: close all public pools, pool recreation areas, we should require mandatory locked pool gates, and sealed, locked pool covers on all privately owned pools. Additionally, we should make owning a pool within 1000 feet of a school a felony. Alternatively, the pool could be permanently drained and filled with dirt. This should be required of all pools without regard for location, or if the pool owner has children or not. We should also criminally prosecute adults who negligently allow their children to drown, such as infants in the tub, or toddlers in the pool.
And anyone who ever breaks a law, even if that law is a tribal, local, or foreign ordinance, should be banned for life from ever owning or using any amount of water.
I mean, for the kids!
In DC, of course, you would still be allowed a pool, but it would have to be kept unassembled at all times.
Pools are ok, but drained as you noted. And we better stop all of that crazy "ingestion of food" crap to.
Jason
heh. John Robb has a similar discussion on his page, only consisting of the dangers of Chili, and Chili with Beans
http://blog.robballen.com/2009/05/13/p3390-the-tool-is-irrelevant.post
Some of the comments are hillarious.
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