On May 30, 10:57*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:


If you pick apart his statistics, you see that he went for the most dramatic
fact that can be drawn from them. Nevertheless, swimming pools are dangerous
to young kids, in that parents only need to be inattentive for a few moments
for the kid to slip out of sight. In most households, the kids never get
their hands on the gun at young ages but they're in the pool on most nice
days.


Ed Huntress

Right. The actual numbers they came up with are about 6 million
pools in the U.S. and about 550 children under the age of ten drown
each year.

About 200 million guns and about 175 children under the age of ten
die each year from guns.

Where his statistics get a bit questionable is that most families have
only one pool, but most families with guns have more than one gun. But
even so you would think that with over three times as many deaths by
drowning, there would be a big hue and cry by Congress to ban pools.
( After banning cars and cigarettes, of course ).

Dan