Posted on 06/12/2005 8:00:59 AM PDT by SandRat
Actually the point of the article is to remind people that real everyday life is more dangerous than the off chance of your kid finding a gun. I had some friends who got into the habit of always bringing up the subject of putting in a pool. They kept asking why my husbnad and I didn't install one. Finally my husband said he wasn't interested in coming home and finding one of the neighbor's kids floating dead in the water. Besides you can only use the darn thing for 3 or months out of the year anyway.
I don't know if any pool maker has been sued but people have been sued and have lost for not having fences around their pools.
So what? I've been down this road in my arguments with the gun nazis and they don't care. Their argument is that pools (or whatever hazard you want to mention and BTW falling down stairs and loose rugs cause as many injuries as guns) have 'redeeming social values' while guns don't.
Kids are 16 times more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun in the house...
Kids are 16 times more likely to drown in a pool if you have a pool at your house...
Kids are 16 times more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a pool at your house...
No, wait a minute...
but, but,... what about the loop-hole in pool safety of unregulated garage sales of pools and Flea-Market sales?</sarc
Reading over Nathan Zachary's reply reminded me of something I had not thought about in decades- Dad liked to say some people were like "hothouse plants- not fit to survive in a normal environment."
Even with fences many have been sued.
Many insurance companies view pools as an attractive nuisance and charge homeowners with any sort of pool a much higher premium expecting the JohnEdwards Ambulance Chasers to sue them.
At which time I usually point out that I'm beginning to question in my mind if there is any left of the Liberals redeeming value.
Buckets are the 'logical' equivalent of Saturday Night Specials(tm), cheap and uncontrolled. Is (tap) water the 'logical' equivalent of ammunition?
That's a good description of most liberals.
Ahah!
That's the beauty of my proposal - 44,000 pool laws, not like the piddly 22,000 gun laws. They'll be no 'loopholes'1
:-)
1 - I love the misuse of that word. Anything NOT covered, aka remaining legal or unregulated, in any law becomes a loophole to said law/regulations opponents.
"Or, we have expect parents to watch their kids and not expect the TV to be a babysitter."
This is the better choice. But building a fence around pools is also a pretty good idea.
Which is why you can hardly find a pool with a deep end in it anymore...can't let people get in water over their heads, can we? On second thought, let's just remove the swimming pool that people can actually swim and get exercise in, and put in a water park with a foot-deep kiddie pool for the adults! No, wait, they can drown in that too...better ban water!
Life has a 100% fatality curve. Nobody gets out alive.
}:-)4
WHAT A COMPLETE GOOBER
I'll take the house by the grand canyon please and Dr Berg can go live in fear of his kitchen knives L0L
Thats gonna leave a mark ;)
Your post makes me feel better- don't have children yet (hopefully will have in the next couple of years) but want a pool in my backyard, hubby doesn't. Hope to get one within the next 5 years, maybe longer if we do have children just to err on the side of caution, however if my better-half sees this article it will be a nonissue in our house, there will be no pool.
And so they should. A second attractive nuisance, the bathtub, and a third, the shower are responsible for many deaths. The number 3 cause of death in the US is accidental falls.
Number 1. Car accidents.
Number 2. Heart attacks.
Number 3. Accidental falls.
Lawyers: An unattractive nuisance.
Roughly on the same order: drowndings in 5 gallon buckets and firearm accidents.
Perhaps you were being ironic about buckets, but there ws one instance where a child drowned in a bucket being used as a 'chamber pot' under the bed.
Suffice it to say, resusitation was more than difficult.
We need to close the swimming hole loop hole. ("Pool hole"?)
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