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In reply to the discussion: New Study Details Gun Injuries Suffered by Children [View all]kcr
(15,522 posts)even though people aren't waking into theaters and schools and colleges and etc and slaughtering them en mass with them is illogical. Yesiree. It makes no sense.
The problem with comparing pools to guns is, how often does one use their pool vs their gun? Like I said, we're comparing two vastly different things. And if you used your gun the way you used your pool, if such a thing were possible? What would happen with the death rates for guns then? Because how do typical gun owners use their guns on a daily basis? Vs how pool owners use their pools? More children die in pools. But they're jumping in them and swimming in them and spending hours in them, often on a daily basis. Vs guns, which are often just spending their time just sitting there. When the deadly occurrence happens? It's usually within that smaller frame of time of its use. For example, kid picks up gun to play with it, blam. Proportionately, time of use death rate, what are the statistics. Not likely to be nearly the same.
And this is the most important part. No one is going to walk into a school/theater/whathave you with their pool. So entirely different subject regarding public safety. Other people's guns have a much different potential regarding my safety than other people's pools do.