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Default owning a swimming pool and gun

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:29:15 -0500, Martin Eastburn
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And 5 gallon buckets without lids kill more small children than both.
Martin


And unintentional injuries (slips and falls) kill 10 times more than
either. Doctors and hospitals kill ten times that many.

http://nfsi.org/nfsi-research/quick-facts/
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm



On 3/13/2015 9:04 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
'If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming
pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.'
Steven Levitt, UOC prof.


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