White Lightning Axiom: Redux: Shot In The Dark, so to speak

Friday, June 24, 2005

Shot In The Dark, so to speak

I found this nugget over at
Shot In The Dark:

"There's one child drowning per year for every 11,000 residential pools in the US. There's 1 child gun death per million guns. (Specifically, 550 kids under 10 drown in the 6 million pools and 175 kids under 10 die from the 200 million guns.) So, a kid is roughly 100 times more likely to die in a house with a swimming pool than a house with a gun."Makes me think about the recent call in England to ban 'long kitchen knives'. Since they banned guns, the next thing was to restrict other implemnts that could do grevious harm. Aluminum bats are next for sure.

# posted by mdmhvonpa @ 8:21 AM