Honestly, it takes an IDIOT to think 360,000 Americans die each year in swimming pools

[dawg day]

6. Gunlovers always make arguments like that, and they don't care about the facts

One gun guy I know told me seriously that more people are killed by soda can poptop accidents than guns. I didn't even bother to look it up. I asked, "How would a poptop kill you?" He came up with "you could swallow it and it could cut your throat on the way down," but then he couldn't think of any other ways. I asked if he knew anyone who died of a poptop, and he admitted he didn't. But we could both come up with a dozen or so people we knew who had died from gunshot.

If I persuaded him at all, it was probably just to switch to swimming pools as being more lethal than guns.



Actual CDC figures for US (note: This is all drownings, not just swimming pool):
From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 332 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.

So he was only off by a factor of 100.....