As I see the seemingly endless parade of gun tragedies and the subsequent calls for more and more bans et al... I see that other causes of death, especially among children, are treated in a completely different manner. Take pool drownings. Among other things its the NUMBER ONE cause of death for children under 5.

 

Many stats:

 

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2012/New-CPSC-Data-Show-Child-Drownings-In-Pools-and-Spas-Still-A-Leading-Cause-of-Death/

 

Now my point is that with regard to these menaces of childhood, the overwhelming cry is to teach children to swim. Not to ban pools. Not even having a decrepit pool sitting uncovered just like the one that killed 2 kids on Long Island today.

 

Being a pool owner, I didn't even consider building it until I could afford an automatic cover for it. It's closed tight whenever we are not using it. It's like having a safe for guns. Having a pool accessible to kids is incredibly dangerous and, I believe, every bit as criminally negligent as having loaded guns accessible to children. Regardless of that opinion, enough kids are killed each year that people who lost kids are spokespersons for, not banning them, but teaching kids to swim. A quote from the above article:

 

"CPSC's Pool Safely campaign has worked to prevent countless drownings, and we will continue to work to save even more lives this year," said Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "Drowning is still the leading cause of unintentional deaths with children younger than 5. That's why the Pool Safely campaign is encouraging all parents and caregivers of children, especially African American and Hispanic children, to help them learn to swim and to take water safety seriously."

 

Today, Chairman Tenenbaum shared simple steps to pool safely and data from CPSC's annual drowning/near-drowning and entrapment reports, at an event at the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale. She was joined by Wanda Butts, a mother who lost her son to drowning in 2006 and formed The Josh Project to help other children learn how to swim; Kim Burgess from the National Drowning Prevention Alliance and the Broward County Health Department's Drowning Prevention Coordinator; and USA Swimming's "Make a Splash" official Kim O'Shea.

 

So guns need to get banned, but the response to pool deaths is education? Where is the call for education when it comes to guns?

 

No where in our foundation documents is the right to have a pool.

 

I don't get it.

 

 

Because guns are evil engines of destruction that virulently corrupt those that use them. Obviously each and every firearm contains a shard of the soul of Lucifer. Duh.

Guns empower those that are "supposed" to be weak. In fact, that's one reason my typically pro-gun cousin doesn't like them. He doesn't like that someone can be much physically stronger and better skilled at fighting... and still be beaten. I always bring up the very old, or the very young. They can defend themselves adequately against a man in peak physical shape.

 

A lot of people don't like the way firearms even out the playing field. Especially government. People don't want the average citizen to be able to defend against government agents. Schools teach kids that the government will protect them. The police will handle everything. I have nothing against police, I once wanted to be one and have friends who are police, but they should not be all powerful compared to a law abiding citizen.

 

Pools do not do this.

I understand the "loftier" motives behind a government disarming its citizens.

 

My question is about your typical soccer mom that can come to the reasoned conclusion that the best way to protect their kids from the #1 risk of death is to teach them to swim and to be vigilant. However that same soccer mom when presented with a very rare tragedy like Newtown immediately stampedes to banning weapons for those that didn't do it.

 

Nobody suggests banning pools, they don't even suggest any limitations or requirements of pool owners. No one goes to jail for having uncovered derelict pools that kill children. No calls for stricter controls.

 

And meanwhile Schumer gets on TV tonight and cites the Marqus Hill case in Philly as argument to block the ccw reciprocity bill that is soon to get voted on in the senate. By saying that people will be wantonly killed in NY by ccw permits from other states. He basically said that all gun owners are killers. Especially ccw holders. There is no reason or common sense to this argument against guns. You cannot cite facts, examples or law. They want what they want and that is an outright gun ban.

 

The portrayal of guns in media. Only bad guys and cops/military have guns or the few good guys. No one else is supposed to have guns. The regular citizen is supposed to be unarmed.

Time for a compromise. hand in your pools, or else were going to search your house without a warrant and deem you insane until proven sane by a medical doctor.

 

dont worry we will stop here, until we come for your bathtub and sink to, those are pretty evil as well. pots and pans hold water, i think we want them too....

Time for a compromise. hand in your pools, or else were going to search your house without a warrant and deem you insane until proven sane by a medical doctor.

 

dont worry we will stop here, until we come for your bathtub and sink to, those are pretty evil as well. pots and pans hold water, i think we want them too....

 

That's exactly my point. Replace the word pool with gun and it's current gun environment.

 

Has the puppet media succeeded in brainwashing the causally involved, non-partisan or non-philosophical into people(voters) that think guns are not inanimate objects but are inherently evil even though they kill fewer kids than backyard pools?

I continually have this argument with some anti's I know, and I use pool instead of gun. They are so blinded that all I get in return is "you're giving me rehtoric" and "you're offbase, it's not even the same thing!"

 

they hate guns, they don't hate deaths.