New Study Details Gun Injuries Suffered by Children

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94. Awesome complete nonsequitur

For one thing, you were talking about why they don't garner the same attention. I was explaining to you the reason why.

But let's discuss pools while we're at it, and why it's ridiculous to compare guns to other objects. Pools are nothing like guns. Completely different objects that function completely differently and are used for entirely different reasons. You slap a pool in your backyard, and there it sits for your swimming enjoyment. You can't take it anywhere with you. It isn't going anywhere. You have to keep it filled and maintained and the cost and time of doing so is far greater than it is for a gun. And its primary purpose is for entertainment. Now I know you might say "But guns are, too! I like to go shooting at the range!" But that's not its primary purpose. Someone can't take a pool to the range and use it for pool practice. The pool can't go anywhere. There it sits, doing the only thing it can. Being used for swimming in. Yes, children do die in pool accidents and I'm not discounting them. At all. In fact, that reason is the reason nI decided not to get one. The dangers, for me, outweighed the benefits. And you do see this addressed in the media all the time. Every summer, swimming safety! The notion by gunners that this isn't addressed is false. The fact that it is addressed led me to the decision not to get one. So, you see? No one discounts anything you say. But the reason you don't see massive threads about pools on DU? A man didn't enter a school and blow 20 children away with a pool. Nor do they go into theaters, or workplaces, etc. That's why.