Monday, January 27, 2014
"Swimming Pools Six Times as Deadly for Kids as Guns"
And the media is silent...
Dean Weingarten opines on this subject on the GunWatch blog:
"When children die in a gun accident, it becomes national news. Partly this is because it is so rare; partly it is because it fits the media template to portray guns as a threat to children.
I have never seen a comparison in the old media of how many children die from swimming pool accidents compared to how man die from gun accidents. (Perhaps this is because many reporters have swimming pools, but that is pure speculation.)
One thing is crystal clear from the above data; in terms of accidental deaths, having a swimming pool is many times more hazardous to children than having a gun."
